climateanon

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by climateanon 13y ago
I definitely LOL'ed at that. David's has been working pretty hard on the acquisition the last few months and may not have been watching the news lately... On the other hand, that should be proof that no marketing/PR person to
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by climateanon 13y ago
A) Were you unhappy about the acquisition by Monsanto before you read the letter, Yes, and to some extent I still am unhappy about the acquisition. They have a pretty terrible reputation and that's definitely causes an impact. > and
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by climateanon 13y ago
I actually couldn't get to sleep and then hit the comment limit. Still around and happy to answer questions.
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by climateanon 13y ago
That's very much not what that law says at all actually. The wikipedia link you pointed to explains it by saying: "If a biotech crop had already been approved (or deregulated) by the USDA and a court reversed that approval, the pr
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by climateanon 13y ago
> Do you see Friedberg as a visionary leader? No, not particularly honestly. He seems like a smart guy, a great salesman/CEO, and really really dedicated. I wouldn't say he has a visionary leader feel to be honest. He already m
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by climateanon 13y ago
Yep, that was supposed to be Sorry, late night! That first line was supposed to say: > Relatively recently, almost all of the corn grown in the US was from about of 3 the common "immortal" varieties (~40/50 years ago.) N
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by climateanon 13y ago
Relatively recently, almost all of the corn grown in the US was about 3 from one of 3 common "immortal" varieties (~40/50 years ago.) The amount of seed diversity that have been introduced by this breeding is actually substan
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by climateanon 13y ago
I've been told that a lot of their work on drought resistance is having good preliminary impacts on reducing water consumption. They've also purchased us at least in part because of the work we're doing on Climate Pro which i
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by climateanon 13y ago
They apparently have a > 90% approval rating amongst US Farmers for what it's worth. They're generally seen to be a solid investment by most farmers. This is what I'm told from internal statistics, so if it's entirely
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by climateanon 13y ago
They're primarily a seed company. Most of the products they have in the pipeline are based on generating resistances to various crop diseases/insects. They try to do this in a variety of ways. GMOs are relatively more expensive th
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by climateanon 13y ago
I'm a climate corp. employee who's happy to answer questions. I'd prefer to remain anonymous, but would generally be cool with answering questions. Edit: I'll be back around tomorrow to answer questions.