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Some Thoughts On Smithfield, OIE and Planting Progress

2013-05-30 22:01:00| Beef

Smithfield Foods purchase by the Chinese once again indicates that foreign investors love the U.S. protein market. Meanwhile the U.S. is awarded the lowest BSE risk classification, hopefully opening the door to an improved export picture. And while USDA says corn planting has made some impressive progress, the focus now is on growing days. My View From The Country read more

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Some Thoughts On The Chinese Purchase of Smithfield Foods

2013-05-30 16:23:00| Beef

Len Steiner and Steve Meyer, CME Group While Smithfield Foods is a behemoth both as a packer and hog producer, it is a drop in the bucket compared to hog numbers, pork production and pork consumption in China. The purchase doesnt change the structure of the U.S. industry at all and thus should have no impact on the competitive landscape. read more

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Thoughts on Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD)

2013-05-29 03:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Field Museum: Friday before last, Camila Duarte and I spent the day down at the University of Chicago. Camila is a visiting Brazilian student who has worked with colleague Camila Ribas in Manaus, Brazil. She will be gathering molecular data on several species of birds that inhabit white sand forests in the Amazon Basin over the next five months. Camila and I were attending a all-day symposium entitled Conserving more than carbon: valuing biodiversity in a changing world at the Gordon Center for Integrative Science...

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