Teff, a promising new crop, hamstrung by regulations
by Rob Sabo, 8/30/2010
After several years of gaining ground on alfalfa production in the state, Nevada’s teff crop suffered a blow this year because farmers were unable to use herbicides on the grass to kill invasive weeds.
Production of teff, a grass native to Ethiopia, has doubled annually in acreage since 2006, says Jay Davison, an alternative crop specialist with the University of Nevada, Reno Cooperative Extension program. In 2009 Nevada’s teff farmers — about 15 to 20 of them, all located in the northern half of the state — produced about 1.1 million pounds of teff grain.
This year Davison says production is expected to decline by more than one-third due to regulatory challenges that led to the banning of certain herbicides farmers had used to kill noxious weeds.
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For a week, Gerlach joins Las Vegas, LAX as busy air destination
by Rob Sabo, 8/30/2010
More flights will leave Reno-Tahoe International Airport for Gerlach than Las Vegas today.
Advantage Flight Solutions of Reno, which provides chartered air service to the playa for folks who want avoid a hot drive to Burning Man festivities, begins a 12-flight-a-day schedule to the Black Rock Desert today.
That’s two more flights than are scheduled to Las Vegas from Reno on major airlines on weekdays, and it ranks Gerlach only behind Los Angeles as a destination for flights from Reno.
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Golden Phoenix seeks a role in mine permitting, finance
by John Seelmeyer, 8/30/2010
Golden Phoenix Minerals Inc., a Sparks company that’s made a couple of so-so stabs at becoming an operator of mines in Nevada, now sees its future in following the middle way.
The publicly held company is carving out a new role for itself in an industry that’s dominated by numerous small exploration companies on one end of the spectrum and a handful of larger companies that operate mines on the other end.
The executive team of Golden Phoenix thinks the company can establish a position in which it identifies promising discoveries by exploration companies, completes the permitting to get the mines ready, then sells them off to operating companies. Golden Phoenix would retain a royalty interest in the properties.
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Machabee sells equipment unit to Sacramento’s Smile
by NNBW staff, 8/30/2010
Two years ago, the father-and-son team of Gary and Scott Machabee saw the economic storm clouds gathering and began repositioning their office furniture and business equipment company to ride out the storm.
The company completed one of the major steps in that transition this month when it completed the sale of a subsidiary that sold copiers and printers to Smile Business Products Inc. of Sacramento.
Smile Business Products is one of the 10 largest dealers for Sharp in the United States.
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