When Wegmans Food Markets began synchronizing product data with its suppliers about six years ago, the Rochester, N.Y.-based chain expected “a seamless flow of information, and the elimination of ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services joins the National Conference on Weights and Measures to observe National Weights and Measures Week. This week commemorates the anniversary ...

Derrick Bradley and Evan Doughty hauled pairs of 5-gallon measuring tanks from pump to pump at a Stringtown Road gas station. In recent days, the two and the others who work in the weights and ...

It’s been over 200 years since President John Adams signed the first weights and measures law in the United States. This makes Governor Jared Polis’s proclamation declaring March 1-7 “Weights and ...

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival starts this week. It’s the world’s biggest arts festival, an event that sells more tickets than any other event in the world, with the exception of the Olympic Games. I ...

Last week, the House and Senate appointed conferees to draft the final bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. I’ve written elsewhere (see here and here) as to why this deal ...

PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a bill eliminating the state Weights and Measures Department and moving its jobs into the agriculture and transportation departments. Ducey signed ...

I have had a chance to do several of those things I had always said I would do if I just had the time. One was to look up agriculture terms I probably should have known but didn’t. A number of these ...