Perhaps the joint ventures will be with a major Chinese or Indian chemical or fertilizer manufacturer.
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Why, he asks, shouldn't chemical or fertilizer companies, long on the sidelines of the world's trading pits, easily buy and sell contracts to manage risk, much as farmers do?
Their production is not a high-technology enterprise: a factory or laboratory that makes fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, or plastics can readily be adapted for the purpose.
Composting has become a common method of recycling food as fertilizer or soil amendment.
On another front, the mayor proposed banning Styrofoam food packaging from stores and restaurants and he called on the city to begin recycling food waste, which can be used as fertilizer or converted to energy.
Also, some cargo just isn't nice to have in your passenger compartment. (Bags of fertilizer or pieces of greasy machinery come to mind.) The Avalanche's bed is covered in a tough plastic lining, easily hosed out or just left harmlessly filthy.
Others nod to the past, lauding the qualities of Zamil Steel or a local calcium fertilizer.
The numbers also enter the policy domain, such as in decisions whether to fund fertilizer subsidies or not.
"So to the extent that Freida the fertilizer salesperson or Chuck the cheese factory worker are worried about their own well-being, so too they should be worried about Miguel the milker and Pepe the peach picker, " he says.
Call it an update, a refresh or digging in some economic fertilizer.
Given the importance of all kinds of chemicals to industry around the world and the ease with which virtually any fertilizer, pharmaceutical or plastics manufacturing plant can be used, when required, to make a batch of weapons agent, no ban on production can solve or even substantially mitigate the chemical weapons problem.
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Should you still be a bull on fertilizer stocks--or is the bullish case a bunch of manure?
Pepsico then worked with farmers on how to use less fertilizer while creating the same yield, or at least the same profitability.
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Once the fermentation process that creates the methane is finished, the remaining solid matter, or "digestate" is used as an organic fertilizer for crops that will later be used as feedstock for the animals.
Porter, and he volunteered seventy acres of land where he had grown only cotton or corn for twenty-eight years, applied no fertilizer, and almost completely depleted the humus layer.
At a high temperature and pressure, gasification converts coal, or other carbon fuels, into synthesis gas that is either burned in a turbine to produce electricity, as in Summit's case, or turned into other products, like diesel oil, fertilizer and pipeline-quality natural gas.
To do business, to sell palm oil or flowers or coffee, African small firms need money to buy seeds, fertilizer, tractors and trucks.
The fertilizer plant exploded in West, Texas, which is only 20 miles or so from Waco, the site of the David Koresh compound fire.
The Dallas Morning News reported that West Fertilizer had told the Environmental Protection Agency that it presented no risk of fire or explosion.
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Similarly, buying shares of fertilizer companies, like Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) or CF Industries (NYSE: CF) is also a potentially profitable way to trade this issue.
The device, which resembles the sawed-off head of a driver golf club, uses its Plant Care Engine (or PCE as its literature so abbreviates) to detect such important plant growth criteria as water, fertilizer, humidity, temperature and light.
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