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Guebert: Politics interfere with value investments

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In a recent television interview, famed Wall Street investor Warren Buffett characterized the October federal government shutdown as “totally irresponsible” and said the failure of leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives to raise the nation’s debt ceiling until moments before possible default was “just plain stupid.” Unlike most stock market billionaires, Buffett wasn’t talking
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As we remember…

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I don’t know a lot about my grandfather’s experiences as a sergeant with the horse brigade in the First World War. He didn’t talk about it with us; I doubt he talked about it much to anyone. It just wasn’t done in those days. I do know that while he never fought in the trenches,
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Waste not, want not

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As we exchanged introductions over breakfast in Des Moines, the reporter from Beijing leaned over and said, “so you’re the one who keeps asking about the food waste.” “Yep, that would be me,” I replied, thinking this puts a new twist on the notion of muck-raking journalism. The annual World Food Prize/Borlaug Dialogue here is
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Making the case for biotechnology

One of the World Food Prize laureates says European productivity is lagging because of its refusal to allow GM crops

A World Food Prize laureate says sustainable intensification tools should be embraced, not banned. 


The following contains excerpts from a brief distributed by VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) a non-profit institute uniting 76 European research groups working in life sciences. One of this year’s World Food Prize laureates, Marc Van Montagu, is founder of the Institute for Plant Biotechnology Outreach within VIB. He co-authored this paper. Europe hesitates
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Whose voice should be heard?

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It was hard not to smile last week when one of our African colleagues on a CropLife International tour asked a presenter to address rumours that clothes made from genetically modified (GM) crops will make a man bald and impotent. After all, after nearly 20 years of growing GM crops, the “Frankenfood” angle on the
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Editorial: A policy that worked

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September 1992 was a damp ending to one of those summers that never was. Farmers were having an awful time getting their crops off and fields cleaned up. I remember it well, because at that time, I lived in a rural area near Winnipeg and I was at home with a newborn in the house.
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A bold step forward

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Manitoba egg farmers have taken a bold step forward with the announcement of their new hen housing policy effective Dec. 31, 2014. As of that date, there will be no new installation of conventional layer cages allowed by the provincial marketing board. Instead, producers who are building or retrofitting barns will have the option of
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Taking co-operative enterprise to the next level

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Italy. Wow. The country is beautiful, the people are passionate, and the co-op sector is incredible. With more than 111,000 co-ops, the sector’s impact in communities and the whole country is enormous. At the epicenter of the movement, the region of Emilia-Romagna has 8,000 co-ops, which represent 40 per cent of the region’s GDP. This
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Sea changes

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Market pundits have been talking “sea change” of late, the prospect of monster crops in key production areas of the world this year transforming the market psyche from famine to feast. “No longer will a constant fear of scarcity drive prices. Instead, traders will be battling for market share instead of scrambling for supplies,” said
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Tree nursery rooted in uncertainty

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In April 2012, the federal government announced that it was axing the very popular Prairie Shelterbelt Program. To date, the government has received more than 20,000 letters, phone calls and hundreds of petitions from upset tree planters. MPs have received numerous complaints as well. Tree planting on the Prairies has always been a joint effort

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