Pesticides linked to depression in farmers, USDA approves a GMO potato: Food …
Diamond in the rough: Geophysicists have been trying to simulate conditions near the Earth's lower mantle and in the process have been figuring out ways to manufacture diamonds, including, with peanut butter. Potato, potato: The USDA has approved a …
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Cooper Tire Begins Testing Tires Made with Guayule Component
The consortium received the BRDI grant in 2012 from the USDA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct research aimed at developing enhanced manufacturing processes for the production of solid rubber from the guayule plant as a biomaterial …
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Paiutes win grant to USDA grant
Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, the RBEG program has helped create or save more than 90,000 rural jobs, provided more than $ 54 million in economic development assistance, improved manufacturing capability, expanded health care and …
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