Groundskeepers released 720,000 ladybugs over an 18-block area in an effort to control aphids, mites, and other unwanted pests, The New York Times reports. The supplier of the ladybugs told the apartment buildings' owners the ladybugs would consume nearly 4.6 billion aphids per day. About UPI . Site Map . Affiliates . Terms of Use . Privacy Policy . Careers . Advertise Online . Contact Us United Press International, UPI, the UPI logo, and other trademarks and service marks, are registered...

BOSTON (Thomson Financial) - Morgan Stanley initiated coverage of the North American agricultural chemicals industry with a cautious view, citing that "exceptional conditions" of biofuel demand, low grain inventory, and quick ability to bring fertilizer capacity to the market will begin to reverse in the second-half of 2008. Sharewatch Online Share Trading Ireland. Morgan Stanley initiates agricultural chemicals industry with cautious view Last Updated:23-October-200718:17:56. BOSTON...

THE National Incomes and Pricing Commission is working on modalities to strengthen its compliance teams to stabilise prices of goods and services, foster economic growth, social harmony and bridge ever widening inequalities in society, the commission chairman has said. THE National Incomes and Pricing Commission is working on modalities to strengthen its compliance teams to stabilise prices of goods and services, foster economic growth, social harmony and bridge ever widening inequalities...

Environmental Protection Agency ordered the use of ultra low sulfur diesel nationwide, truck manufacturers' sales have gone down, raising concern among Alaska truck distributors. Last year was a banner year for truck sales, as fleet owners over-bought inventory in anticipation of problems with the 2007 models using new ULSD engines, Schouten said. But the most significant benefits of clean diesel will be realized when new trucks have largely replaced the existing fleet by 2020, according...

The company is looking instead for project finance to pay for a new urea and ammonia plant, the London-based weekly reported in its latest issue, without saying how it obtained the information. The global credit crunch, triggered in July by defaults on US mortgages, led Qatar Fertiliser s advisers to scrap plans to sell the bond in October because it was getting too expensive to finance the project this way , the magazine said. The credit crisis, which made banks around the world more...

Planted roughly twice as close as trees in conventional groves, they are nurtured by state-of-the-art irrigation and fertilizer systems that allow trees to grow into production faster. FORT PIERCE -- Hurricanes wiped out a quarter of his 100 acres of groves in 2004, and the citrus canker eradication program felled 50 more acres, but Pete Spyke is mounting a cutting-edge comeback in a small experimental grove called ''Rock Bottom. It's a race against greening, a tree-killing disease with no...