DENVER, Colorado, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- CoBank, a cooperative bank that serves agribusinesses, rural infrastructure providers and Farm Credit associations, issued the following news release: A modest rebound in U.S. wheat production and supplies is improving the outlook for profitability among grain elevators that store wheat. Futures market carries have improved for all three major classes of wheat and the buy basis is widening following a bigger harvest. The larger harvest follows two years of  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Sept. 20 -- Food and Energy Security, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features agricultural crop and forest productivity, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2023 edition (Vol. 12, Issue 5): REVIEWS: * A comprehensive review of the therapeutic potential of cyanobacterial marine bioactives: Unveiling the hidden treasures of the sea * Reviving grain quality in wheat through non-destructive phenotyping techniques like hyperspectral imag  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 23 -- Foods, a peer-reviewed scientific open access journal, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2023 edition (Vol. 12, Issue 18): * A Comparative Analysis of Phenolic Content, Antioxidant Activity, Antimicrobial Activity, and Chemical Profile of Coffea robusta Extracts Using Subcritical Fluid Extraction and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction * A Comprehensive Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Based Feature Representations fo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Microbiology Resource Announcements, a online journal from the American Society for Microbiology that says it publishes articles announcing the availability of sequenced genomes of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in public databases, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2023 edition (Vol. 12, No. 9): Genome Sequences: * Draft genome sequences of Pantoea sp. strains QMID1-QMID4 isolated from the midgut of Japanese honey be  more

VIENNA, Austria, Sept. 20 -- OPEC Fund for International Development issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) is supporting food security in Egypt with a US$10 million contribution to a US$200 million syndicated trade finance facility with the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC). The facility will facilitate the import of vital food and agricultural commodities. Egypt is the world's largest wheat importe  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 23 -- Plants, a scientific peer-reviewed open access journal that says it covers plant science from the Australian Society of Plant Scientists, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2023 edition (Vol. 12, Issue 18): * A New Essential Oil from the Native Andean Species Nectandra laurel Klotzsch ex Nees of Southern Ecuador: Chemical and Enantioselective Analyses * A Review of the Potential Health Benefits of Nigella sativa on Obesity and I  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks on Sept. 20, 2023, by Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the United Nations Security Council Ministerial Meeting on Ukraine: * * * SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you very much. Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for focusing the Security Council on this critically important issue. And Mr. Secretary-General, thank you for the moral clarity that you've shown in dealing with Russia's war against Ukraine. We're grateful to have been ab  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks by Secretary Antony J. Blinken at an event at Rockefeller Foundation entitled "Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils: Global Solutions for Food Security": * * * SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. Thank you very, very much. So we're, what, about halfway through High-Level Week, I think - (laughter) - which is known at the department basically as speed-dating for diplomats. And we have lots of events, lots of meetings, lots of   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2023: Today, the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration announced two investments in Washington state's rail system infrastructure that will improve efficiency of a major agricultural corridor in Eastern Washington and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Tacoma. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) received $72.8 million to design and construct upgrades along the Pal  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The National Association of Wheat Growers issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2023: U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) today thank Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Sen. Pete Rickets (R-NE) for the introduction of the American Farmers Feed the World Act of 2023 in the U.S. Senate. The bi-partisan legislation would restore the original intent of the Food for Peace program  more