While the pickup runs well, the distinctive exhaust aroma, think of French fries at the beach, produces an unexpected side-effect on drivers and passengers. In a nation that is starving for energy, the mouth-watering smell of biodiesel exhaust could be the aroma of cash for farmers, who can grow their own fuel while adding value to their crops, thus escaping the yoke of oil companies and Middle Eastern cartels. In a nation that is starving for energy, the mouth-watering smell of biodiesel...

To make the sauce, the researchers steamed frozen broccoli and frozen cauliflower for seven minutes, following the directions on the frozen veggies' package. Kids don't necessarily notice when steamed broccoli and cauliflower are blended into their pasta sauce, a new study shows. The bottom line: They consumed fewer calories and more vegetables when broccoli and cauliflower were blended into the pasta sauce. The children didn't know it, but Leahy's team snuck broccoli and cauliflower into...

Through new hires and promotions Nunhems expands crop team structure Parma-based Nunhems USA, a world leader in the development, production and marketing of hybrid vegetable seed and seed technology, announces changes in its crop team structure. Nunhems is the global specialist in vegetable seeds and sharing products, concepts and expertise adding value to the professional horticultural production industry and supply chain. Hill will lead these crop teams throughout North and South America...

The first product to be derived from corn in these parts, of course, was alcohol, the kind you put in a glass rather than your car. PEKIN - While ethanol may be enjoying newfound popularity around the country, distilling corn has been part of central Illinois history for well over a century. Ethanol production is big business in central Illinois, with ADM employing more than 4,000 people in the area alone, said Harjehausen, noting the company expects to open another plant in Decatur by...

It is not new to hear that soy and broccoli have been linked to lowering cancer rates, if they are a part of your daily diet. It is explained in the article that a compound resulting from the digestion of cruciferous vegetables, and genistein, an isofavone in soy, reduce the two proteins needed for breast and ovarian cancer to spread. The researchers are convinced that there is a biological mechanism behind the protective effect. This attraction stimulates the invasive properties of cancer...

The IPCC predicts that by 2050, rice production will decrease by 10 percent, and wheat production by one-third -- which means increased risk of famine. The 28-year-old farmer once grew rice and vegetables, just as his father did before him, roughly 90 kilometers from the coast, in small village of Munshiganj in south-western Bangladesh. Yet what may be good for the farmers is bad for everyone else. Then rice production started to decline, and eventually the vegetable crops failed entirely....