Another friend, who owns a chain of agricultural-supply stores, has moved to Florida and is expanding operations in other states.
Throughout his political career, Gore was a one-man calamity for agricultural innovations that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and for an agricultural commodity supply-demand balance that would keep food prices low.
Shares of agricultural retailer Tractor Supply jumped 5.3% in early-morning trading after it rasied its fiscal 2010 forecast.
For the last several years, he has led engagements focused on identifying challenges and opportunities across the agricultural market and supply chain in sub-Saharan Africa, including cash crops (for export), staples, and horticulture.
The supply of agricultural ones, for example, increases much more readily when prices rise, because farmers can plant more of them.
The workshop has been held in other U.S. cities and concentrates on the safety of our water supply and agricultural food chain.
As population growth and rising incomes create unprecedented demand for food, multinational companies increasingly rely on smallholders to secure their supply of agricultural commodities.
It is the source of water-supply of agricultural and everyday needs.
Compounding this imbalance is the fact that continuing urbanization and property development have taken large amounts of farmland out of production, threatening grain supply and agricultural development.
With China and other emerging markets rebounding, demand for oil, copper, corn and other agricultural crops will outstrip supply at least for the near term.
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The supply of cheap agricultural labour dries up and a rising number of workers take jobs in the service sector, where productivity improvements are more difficult to achieve.
An anticipated monthly report on global supply and demand estimates for agricultural products from the Department of Agriculture this Friday may support the agriculture and fertilizer market if it shows that demand continues to be strong for these crops.
Add to this an inevitable end to stretching productivity per acre with further technical advances as we reach some ultimate biological limit, and we would be irresponsible to assume that agricultural science will solve all future problems of food supply.
When governments essentially pay producers to make what consumers don't necessarily want while allowing them to charge an above-market price, supply is plentiful--just look at agricultural goods.
Surveyors believe uncertainty over the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and the future of farming has also reduced supply and demand for land among the farming community.
Crop prices may have fallen from recent peaks but agricultural nutrients and grains remain strongly priced and in tight supply, which means that the staggering growth of Agrium's second quarter is expected to continue.
We have now, if there were no climate change, we would be sitting, having a discussion with agricultural experts about the need to increase the world's food supply by 50%.
Some developers are now looking to generate energy by burning straw, which the UK has an abundant supply of and which, as a by-product of agricultural crops, does not have an impact on the food verses fuel debate currently engulfing the biofuel industry.
The U.S. avocado supply has roughly tripled since the mid-1990s, says Roberta Cook, an agricultural economist at the University of California, Davis, based on analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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Backed by Iranian and Hezbollah military advisers, the regime is focused on cutting off rebel supply lines into the city from the north and south, and breaking the vast agricultural suburbs of Damascus into smaller theaters of operation that the military can easily besiege, say regime officials.
With the comfort of permanent agricultural settlements came uncomfortable new scourges such as intestinal parasites, bad teeth and the fouling of the water supply.
To date, Houghton and Scotto have successfully worked with 130 villages in the Bombali and Tonkolili districts of the country and developed agricultural collection points and routing mechanisms, which will ensure that Africa Felix Juice always has a fresh fruit supply on hand.
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