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Colombianismos – Let’s test Cargill (II)

Colombianismos – Let’s test Cargill (II)

by | Oct 1, 2013 | Agriculture

The following blog post is a translation of the article that was published in El Espectador on September 23 2013. Thanks to Carson Scott for his help in editing my translation.   Interview with Cargill’s president “The land was just one piece of the investment”...
Colombianismos – Those forbidden words

Colombianismos – Those forbidden words

by | Aug 28, 2013 | Agriculture

“That’s the way it is”: a phrase that should be deleted from our vocabulary.   Soybean crops near Tracy, MN. The grean ocean.    The following conversation took place in the morning of Aug. 26/2013, inside the scoopmobile, between...
Colombianismos – Let’s test Cargill (II)

Colombianismos – Let’s test Cargill

by | Aug 17, 2013 | Agriculture

Let’s see what Cargill people think “transparency” is about. Dear Cargill people:  Thank you very much for having us on Thursday morning in your mansion. Lunch was good, the fruits were tasty (particularly the strawberries and the pineapples)...

Farmers suffer in extreme drought

by | Sep 23, 2012 | Agriculture

Keith Martz surveys the corn at his farm in bluegrass Iowa, where drought has hurt this year’s crop.PUBLISHED IN THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER, SEPTEMBER 3KEITH Martz is the fourth generation of his family to toil in the fields of Bluegrass, Iowa, and the drought...