Reading Time: 5 minutes CG: China is revered for always thinking three steps ahead of its competitors, and for always building for the long term. Is it really better than other countries at “picking winners” in agriculture? JL:China has made many major mistakes in agriculture. The Straw for Beef program is a good example. Enormous amounts of money were […] Read more
You’re So Wrong About China
ALMA Charges East
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jack Hayden and David Chalack must have been pleased when they stepped off the plane from Beijing in October. Subject to some final Chinese inspections at the end of 2010, Canadian beef is expected to start flowing into China in January. It’s been a huge hurdle, so the smiles were understandable on the faces of […] Read more
Open For Business – for Aug. 30, 2010
Reading Time: 7 minutes When Mitsui Canada held a press conference in 2007 to announce it was investing more than $30 million for a 40 per cent stake in a new high-capacity canola crushing facility to be built in Yorkton, Sask., many farmers across the country took a deep breath. Mitsui was teaming up with Louis Dreyfus Commodities, whose […] Read more
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