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US FARMING TURNING POINT. "The great turning point in the modern history of corn, which in turn marks a key turning point in the industrialization of our food, can be dated with some precision to the day in 1947 when the huge munitions plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, switched over from making explosives to making chemical fertilizer."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn

FIELD TRIALS FOR NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY RESEARCH. "Our technology is based on a naturally occurring, nitrogen fixing bacteria which takes up and uses nitrogen from the air. The seed/plant is treated with a bacterium which fixes atmospheric nitrogen to all crops cell to cell."" " http://www.azotictechnologies.com/index.php/technology/ View in LinkedIn

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL USED FOR PESTICIDES. "from 1946 to 1982, the Army leased RMA facilities to private industries for the production of pesticides. One of the major lessees, Shell Oil Company,"" " http://lnkd.in/dtVBHph View in LinkedIn

PROMISING NITROGEN FIXING R&D. "Azotic’s new nitrogen-fixing technology has been developed by Professor Edward (Ted) Cocking FRS. Professor Cocking is Director of the Centre for Crop Nitrogen Fixation at the University of Nottingham. He has pioneered studies on the interaction of nitrogen-fixing bacteria with plant cells in non-legume crops and the regeneration of cereals from cell cultures." Being field tested by Azotic Technologies Ltd. " " http://lnkd.in/d2jhNux http://lnkd.in/dQ5FWRH View in LinkedIn

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL USED FOR PESTICIDES. "from 1946 to 1982, the Army leased RMA facilities to private industries for the production of pesticides. One of the major lessees, Shell Oil Company," " http://lnkd.in/dtVBHph View in LinkedIn

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL." ""Weapons manufactured at RMA included both conventional and chemical munitions, including white phosphorus (M34 grenade), napalm, mustard gas, lewisite, and chlorine gas.[ RMA is also one of the few sites that had a stockpile of Sarin gas (aka nerve agent GB), an organophosphorus compound, and one of the most toxic substances ever created in a lab."" " http://lnkd.in/dtVBHph View in LinkedIn

FROM SUN FERTILIZER TO FOSSIL FUELS. "When humankind acquired the power to fix nitrogen, the basis of soil fertility shifted from a total reliance on the energy of the sun to a new reliance on fossil fuel."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn

FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES GREW OUT OF MUNITIONS. "The chemical fertilizer industry (along with that of pesticides, which are based on the poison gases developed for war) is the product of the government's effort to convert its war machine to peacetime purposes."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn

FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES GREW OUT OF MUNITIONS. "The chemical fertilizer industry (along with that of pesticides, which are based on the poison gases developed for war) is the product of the government's effort to convert its war machine to peacetime purposes."" " http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whats-eating-america-121229356/ View in LinkedIn

€80 BN EC RESEARCH INITIATIVE. "The new European Union research budget has had its official UK launch. Known as Horizon 2020, the program is worth nearly £67bn (80bn euros) and covers the next seven years."" " http://lnkd.in/d9pWWUt View in LinkedIn