BASF, Research Triangle Park, N.C., pursues a stewardship case involving rice in Arkansas.BASF, Research Triangle Park, N.C., pursues a stewardship case involving rice in Arkansas to protect the name of its Clearfield Clearfield, city (1990 pop. 21,435), Davis co., N Utah; inc. 1922. Hill Air Force Base, to the northeast, is the state's largest employer. Clearfield is the site of Utah's largest industrial park and has diversified manufacturing. production system. Last spring, BASF entered into a consent judgment consent judgment n. a judgment issued by a judge based on an agreement between the parties to a lawsuit to settle the matter, aimed at ending the litigation with a judgment that is enforceable. (See: consent decree) with a number of northeastern Arkansas rice growers and others, some who violated Clearfield rice stewardship agreements by planting saved seed. The company's action in pursuing this case reflects its interest in safeguarding the Clearfield portfolio of crops, including wheat, sunflowers and other crops involving the registered technology, states Jason Ward, Clearfield market manager. BASF states that they have always emphasized the importance of regarding Clearfield as a total sys tern tern, common name for a sea bird of the Old and New Worlds, smaller than the related gull. Because of their graceful flight and their long pointed wings and forked tails, some terns are called sea swallows. They plunge headlong into the water to catch small fish. The arctic tern migrates from the arctic to the antarctic. American terns include the common, least, Forster's, noddy, sooty, roseate, and royal terns, all of the genus Sterna. that combines approved seed, Beyond[R] herbicide and responsible product stewardship. |
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