Chinese pharmaceutical companies also have taken over much of the world market in the production of antibiotics, analgesics, enzymes and primary amino acids. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several big Chinese drug companies, working with the government-backed Chinese Academy of Sciences, devised a method to cut the normal five-step process for making vitamin C to a two-step fermentation process, leaving European, U. In the wake of a pet food scandal, in which adulterated wheat gluten...

Small grain crop growers will be introduced to a recently developed variety of wheat Thursday in Aurora. The free event will feature a variety of soft white wheat resistant to sprouts and scab. We will never edit or alter your comments, but we do reserve the right to not post or to remove comments that violate our code of conduct. The field day will also feature talks on growing methods, storage and pest control by researchers, vendors and farmers. For this reason, comments are first...

The dry spell follows a freeze in early April that inflicted at least $70 million in crop losses statewide, hitting winter wheat, peach and apple crops the hardest. A supplemental pump was activated three days ago and has helped the utilities company produce an extra 800,000 gallons of water each day, Althauser said. Residents were asked to conserve water in any way possible and flower, garden and grass watering were restricted to certain days only. Although the city s water use is not...

health officials were scrambling to find out which brands of Chinese-made toothpaste had entered their countries, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced last Friday that it has intercepted a shipment of corn gluten from China contaminated with melamine and cyanuric acid. The Epoch Times . Tainted Products Continue to Flow out of China. health officials were scrambling to find out which brands of Chinese-made toothpaste had entered their countries, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency...

crop hit with a substantial freeze in April, but since then there has been much talk about tightening world wheat stocks and speculation about the size of the world wheat crop due to dryness in France, the Ukraine, Northern China and Australia. Trading volume was lighter than normal due to a large number of questions about this years hard red winter wheat crop. Daily quotes, market commentary, historical data and charting services are available on our website at www.kcbt.com. You are here:...