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...By the 20th century, the “German toy” (as Charles Dickens called the tree) was brimming with decorations....
...In Europe, Asia and the Americas over the past five or six decades, the private sector has used seed engineering to transform crops like wheat, corn and soy as well as improving the genetics of livestock...
...A section on “cultural nationalisms” ranges through a depiction of a Hopi corn dance, posters for the National Park Service, Charles White’s double portrait of “Sojourner Truth and Booker T Washington” —...
...During a visit to Bucharest on Monday, European Council president Charles Michel acknowledged the role Romania had played in setting up alternative export routes for Ukraine, adding that the country had...
...Perhaps it’s the US flags hoisted everywhere or just deep-seated patriotism, but something in me was hankering for a handheld meal and some high-fructose corn syrup to wash it down with....
...Getting consensus out of this is a bit like one of those logic puzzles where you have to get a hen, a fox and some corn across a river in a boat that can only take two at a time....
...The Spence, its all-day bar and restaurant, practically begs you to live a little from the moment you’re seated: shoot a couple of oysters (Argyle Rock, naturally), accept that top-up of Charles Heidsieck...
...Charles Gatere, a Kenyan coffee farmer said he had never seen fertiliser prices this high in his nearly five decades in the profession....
...Ukraine exports about 10 per cent of the world’s wheat and corn and 37 per cent of its sunflower oil, according to UN FAO figures....
...The 1929 watercolour “Pyramid of Fire”, by American artist Charles E Burchfield, exudes a grim and despairing air....
...Aidan Harrison (farmer)Morpeth, Northumberland, UK Letter in response to this letter: An inconvenient truth linking CO2 and methane / From Charles Palmer, Auckland, New Zealand...
...In Devon, Charles Flower seeds also have years of experience and charlesflower-wildflowers.co.uk is a good first step for the hopeful....
...Charles Tebbutt picks up a ripe walnut from the sodden ground. Around us are 120 varieties of walnut tree, planted as an experiment nearly two decades ago....
...Over the hedge from where we are playing croquet is a field that used to be farmed by “two old boys”, who would take days to cut and stook the corn, sometimes with the Handys’ help....
...He had found a little spring by which to survive and so he grew corn at first and then vegetables, gifts for anyone who happened to come by....
...Charles White invoked Rivera’s explosive history paintings for his “Progress of the American Negro”, from 1939-40, a panoramic tableau starring Sojourner Truth, Booker T Washington, Frederick Douglass and...
...(FT, Associated Press) Charles Schwab nears deal for rival TD Ameritrade Charles Schwab is nearing an agreement to acquire US online brokerage TD Ameritrade for more than $25bn, according to people briefed...
...Nearly all the dramas the Tory party is going through today happened over 150 years ago, when then-prime minister Peel forced through reforms to the Corn Laws....
...Not only has someone finally done a bit of research on the UK’s past and how it dealt with similar situations, like the Corn Laws debate in the 19th century, but the piece also totally exposed the core Brexiters...
...It expected growth from Tate’s specialist ingredients business to be too slow to offset pressure elsewhere, particularly as US corn prices have spiked higher....
...FBN has provided national yield estimates on corn and soyabeans to its 7,800 members since the start of the year, said Charles Baron, its co-founder....
...Since then they have intermittently done their best to tear themselves apart, over the Corn Laws in the 1840s and then after 1900 over “tariff reform”, often leading to electoral disaster....
...What about #MeToo and the allegations against high-profile figures such as Charles Dutoit, the now ex-conductor of the Royal Philharmonic?...
...The domestic glut of soyabeans would spur farmers to plant more corn in the spring, analysts said....
...The view is shared by lawmakers such as Senate finance committee chairman Charles Grassley of corn-rich Iowa, whose support is almost certainly vital to get the deal through....
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