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[2021]
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Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, is sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight the giant legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson Weaver and environmental activist Rebecca Salcau to fight one of the most monumental cases all the way up to the Supreme Court.
2) Tractor wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the birth of modern agriculture
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[2021]
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"With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture-a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world"--
Pub. Date
2010
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In the 90's, multinational corporations such as Monsanto introduced genetically modified plants onto the market. Some called it an agricultural revolution that would solve the world's food problems. Others viewed these plants as irreversible destroyers of the planet's bio-diversity and a grave threat to the safety of our food supply. Although many people look to scientists to resolve this dispute, can we trust what they tell us?
Scientists under...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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Posits "that constructive Christian engagement depends on the belief that those made in the image of God are created not only for family life, agriculture, education, science, industry, and the arts but also for building political communities, justly ordered for the common good [and] argues that God made us to be royal stewards of public governance from the outset and that the biblical story of God's creation, judgment, and redemption of all things...
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c2009
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Product Description: This book features the 500 jobs with the best pay, fastest growth, and most opening and presents more than 70 "best jobs" lists. In just two steps this helps readers quickly and easily focus their career options (step 1: the lists) and learn more about jobs of interest (step 2: the job descriptions).