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Feb 3 -- Pike, Idexx see delay as opportunity in Westbrook.  The tabling of a zoning change allows time to forge a compromise on the quarry, but skeptics remain.  (Portland Press Herald)

Feb 3 -- UNE professor helps shed light on SIDS' cause (Portland Press Herald)

Jan 26 - Organic or conventional, farmers are working in unison.  Op-ed column by Jon Olson, Maine Farm Bureau (Kennebec journal)

Jan 20 -- MOFGA head complains about Convergence Conference in Portland Press Herald op-ed column.  (Portland Press Herald)

Jan 13 -- Convergence Conference draws standing room only crowd at the Maine Agricultural Trades Show.  "Convergence" is a new term describing a type of farming that combines organic, conventional and biotech farming methods. (read more)

Jan 6 -- Maine Ag Trade Show to focus on "convergence."  Keynote speaker urges "third way" which "will require ALL farmers, researchers and policy makers to come together with a new vision for agriculture into the 21st century." (Maine Farm Bureau)
Feb 6 -- Fewer than 1% of U.S. farms are organic, USDA says.  (Wall Street Journal)

Feb 5 -- Biotechnology group objects to U.S. stance on gene patents.  (Business Week)

Feb 1 -- Ironwood Gears Up for Biotech’s Biggest IPO in Years, Sending Ripple Effect Through Industry (Xconomy/Boston)

Jan 28 – PhRMA head Billy Tauzin gives 2010 outlook for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. (Life Science Leader)

Jan 26 -- America's Agricultural Angst -- Farming is big business, but some green activists are seeking to destroy it.  (Forbes Magazine)

Jan 26 -- Biotech the top sector for venture investment in 2009.  (Seeking Alpha)

Jan 16 -- Biologic Drugs May Get Less Protection. President Obama is pushing for a last-minute change in the final health care bill that would shorten the time that expensive biotechnology drugs would be shielded from generic competition. (New York Times)

Jan 15 -- Renewed Biotech Vigor Could Be Halmark of 2010.  Year of the tiger predicted to bring fresh energy and stamina to biotech sector. (Genetic Engineering News)
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