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Becker Underwood Inc., Ames, Iowa, announces the purchase of Urbana Laboratories, St. Joseph, Mo.; Seedbiotics, Caldwell, Idaho; and the Sepiret line of seed coating products previously owned by the French-based specialty chemical producer Seppic. (At Closing News).


Becker Underwood Inc., Ames, Iowa, announces the purchase of Urbana 1 City (1990 pop. 36,344), seat of Champaign co., E central Ill., adjoining Champaign; inc. 1833. With Champaign, its twin city, Urbana is a trade, medical, and educational center in a fertile farm area. Concrete, fabricted metal parts, and transportation equipment are manufactured. Urbana is best known as a seat of the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A tablet in the county courthouse commemorates a speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1854.

2 City (1990 pop.
 Laboratories, St. Joseph, Mo.; Seedbiotics, Caldwell, Idaho; and the Sepiret line of seed coating products previously owned by the French-based specialty chemical producer Seppic. Urbana Laboratories produces nitrogen-fixing rhizobium inoculants for legume legume /le·gume/ (le´gum)
1. any plant of the large family Leguminosae.
2. the pod or fruit of one of these plants, such as a pea or bean.
 crops, while Seedbiotics is a seed-coating company serving the alfalfa alfalfa (ălfăl`fə) or lucern (l, clover and grass seed industries. Along with the Sepiret range of products, Becker Underwood will retain key Seppic sales and technical staff.
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Date:Nov 1, 2002
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