Normal Business Operations to Continue Under Chapter 11 Process ONSTED, Mich. (Oct. 1, 2013) – Groeb Farms, Inc., a major U.S. honey packer, has announced that it has reached an agreement with its lender, a private equity firm, to recapitalize the company and invest additional capital into the business. The transaction will be consummated through a plan of reorganization (the “Plan”) …
U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois CHICAGO — A California woman was sentenced Sept. 30 to three years in federal prison for illegally transporting hundreds of container loads of Chinese-origin honey through the Chicago area after it entered the country illegally. The defendant, HUNG YI LIN, also known as “Katy Lin,” 42, of Temple City, Calif., …
This is an image of fossilized pollen. Peter A. Hochuli. P, A and Feist-Burkhardt. S, Frontiers in Plant Science, 2013. Drilling cores from Switzerland have revealed the oldest known fossils of the direct ancestors of flowering plants. These beautifully preserved 240-million-year-old pollen grains are evidence that flowering plants evolved 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study in …
by Jerry Hayes Monsanto Corporation I think I have something that we can all support and encourage in our own locales, regions, states and world…at least I hope so. One of my goals here is to see if we can get the strong primary educational outreach organization of traditional agriculture the National FFA Organization, previously known as the Future Farmers of …
This weekend, over 80 of the world’s leading honey bee scientists met in Kiev, Ukraine, and took the colony loss network COLOSS, originally an EU COST action that ended last year, and turned it into a new non-profit association. The aims of the new association are to: “improve the well-being of bees at a global level, with a primary focus on …
Scientists at the University of Warwick have modeled an outbreak of the bee infection American foulbrood in Jersey, using a technique which could be applied to other honeybee diseases such as European foulbrood and the Varroa parasite. As well as modeling how bee infections spread, the method also allows scientists to simulate various disease control interventions in order to measure their …
Firestone, Colo., August 30, 2013 – The National Honey Board is requesting proposals for research dealing with honey bee colony production. The goal of this research is to help producers maintain colony health while assuring the maintenance of honey quality. The NHB is encouraging proposals on Varroa research, but will consider proposals dealing with Acarapis woodi, Nosema Ceranae, and small hive …
MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Kansas State University entomologists have helped identify a neuropeptide named natalisin that regulates the sexual activity and reproductive ability of insects. The team is the first to observe and name the neuropeptide, which is composed of short chains of amino acids in the brain of insects and arthropods. The finding may open new possibilities for environmentally friendly pest …