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EIA Predicts Strong Ethanol Rebound in 2014
On Jan. 8, the U.S. Energy Information Administration released the January issue of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, which is the first to include forecasts for 2014. The EIA’s analysis predicts that ethanol production will rebound, beginning in the second half of 2013.
January 11, 2013
Business
NDS Announces Acquisition
NDS has announced the acquisition of KBI’s PVC and related plastic product lines including fittings, unions, couplings, swing joints, risers, valves, tools and drains.
January 11, 2013
Business
Native Neighborhood
“Xeriscaping is increasing through our neighborhood like a slow-moving wave,” according to Lionel Johnstone of Sunset Palisades development in Shell Beach.
January 11, 2013
Business
PLANET Student Career Days
The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) has announced that registration is open for companies that want attend the largest recruiting event in the industry. PLANET Student Career Days (SCD)—The National Collegiate Landscape Competition—will take place March 7–10, 2013, at Auburn University, in Auburn, Ala.
January 10, 2013
Business
Consultant Predicts Rental Industry to Surpass $32 billion
In the February issue of RER magazine, industry consultant Frank Manfredi says the U.S. equipment rental industry will surpass $32 billion in 2013, an increase of 16 percent over 2012.
January 10, 2013
Business
Takeuchi Brings TS Series to North America
Takeuchi now offers its TS Series skid steer loaders in North America. The series ranges in operating weight from 6,500 to 8,600 pounds and has a rated operating capacity ranging from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds.
January 10, 2013
Business
Billy Goat Enhances Overseeder
Billy Goat Industry’s newly enhanced OS901SPS includes a new blade design that reduces thatch and improves blade life due to its sharpened leading edge and attack angle combined with a new foot actuated height adjust that raises and lowers the reel effortlessly and provides more blade depth.
January 9, 2013
Business
Live Project Status
Dassault Systèmes has launched the “Lean Construction,” an industry solution experience for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry that empowers companies to take advantage of collaborative project management and execution.
January 9, 2013
Business
Greenest Street in America
A streetscape that includes natural landscaping, bicycle lanes, wind powered lighting, storm water diversion for irrigation, drought-resistant native plants and innovative “smog-eating” concrete has earned Cermak road in Chicago the title of “greenest Street in America” according to the Chicago Department of Transport (CDOT).
January 9, 2013
Business
The Art of Landscaping
Our Landscapers of the Year used their business savvy and love of landscaping to create a thriving company. When sisters Nancy Marshall and Becky Whitacre grew up working for their parents’ landscaping business, making a mistake was not an option, and the word “can’t” was not acceptable.
January 9, 2013
Business
What Does Construction Growth Mean for Economy?
A new report from the Washington Post calls the construction industry one of the “bright spots” in the recovering labor market, noting that the industry’s addition of 30,000 jobs in December accounted for one-fifth of all jobs added in the U.S. that month.
January 8, 2013
Business
B3C Fuel Solutions Partners with Australian Distributor
B3C Fuel Solutions has partnered with Roy Gripske & Sons Pty Ltd, the Australian distributor for Bushranger, Maruyama, Craftsman and Hustler Commercial Outdoor Power Equipment.
January 8, 2013
Business
Get Plant Data on Phone, Tablet
Parrot, the company behind the popular AR. Drone quadcopter — has revealed a prototype of its not-yet-launched Flower Power smart gardening gadget, which allows users to get data in real time about how to best care for plants, flowers and your lawn.
January 8, 2013
Business
Smalls Landscaping Named 2013 Landscaper of the Year
Business partners and sisters Nancy Marshall and Becky Whitacre, owners of Smalls Landscaping in Valparaiso, Indiana, were named the 2013 Landscaper of the Year by Total Landscape Care magazine.
January 8, 2013
Business
What the Experts are Saying
Here’s what got these pros through the recession. While on the Landscaper of the Year cruise in the Bahamas, we asked the 2013 finalists and winners what helped their business survive and thrive this past year. Here’s what they had to say.
January 8, 2013
Business
Weed Man Ranked No. 1
For a second year in a row, Weed Man USA has earned the number one spot in the lawn care category for Entrepreneur magazine’s annual Franchise 500.
January 7, 2013
Business
Oso Technologies Launches Kickstarter Campaign
Oso Technologies unveiled its “smart” sensor, which tells users when to water their plants, through the online crowdfunding site Kickstarter on Jan. 4. Within hours they already had hundreds of backers and had reached more than 22 percent of their funding goal.
January 7, 2013
Business
Living Walls for Both Indoor, Outdoor Plants
After the first hard frosts of fall had told most other gardens it was time to hunker down for the winter, Marie and Jean-Pierre Hamel’s vertical outdoor garden was still a riot of visual interest, even as its hardy alpine plants entered dormancy.
January 7, 2013
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