agriculture
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Environment/Energy
Why We Have to Fight for What Biotechnology Can Offer Us
by Amanda Maxham October 31, 2018It’s time to fight for the technology that makes our food great. It’s time to stand up and scream “No!”
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PodcastUncategorized
The Pod Complex with Rick Ungar and Guest Speaker Hon. Tim Huelskamp
by Rebecca Huelskamp August 15, 2018Tim Huelskamp, president of The Heartland Institute, joins The Pod Complex and Rick Ungar to discuss the challenges that we are currently facing in our economy.
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GovernmentHealth Care
This Flawed UN Health Agency Threatens America’s Food Supply. It’s Time For Badly Needed Reform
by Jeff Stier March 6, 2018When is a carcinogen not necessarily a carcinogen?
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Agriculture is under attack.
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Environment/EnergyPodcastScience
Heartland on the Radio: Jay Lehr on Rural Route
by Jim Lakely July 7, 2017Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr travels regularly for speaking engagements to farmers and agriculture groups across America.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Heartland on the Radio: Jay Lehr Discusses the Paris Climate Accord and the Agriculture Sector
by Jay Lehr June 6, 2017On June 6, Science Director Jay Lehr was a guest on AG Wired’s podcast ZimmCast to discuss the impact that Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord will have on the agricultural industry and farmers as a whole.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyScience
How The Ethanol Mandate Is Killing The American Prairie
by William Shughart April 20, 2017Instead of damning oil as evil, politicians and pundits should start questioning their blind faith in ethanol.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Crops and Carbon Dioxide: The Connection is Clear
by H. Sterling Burnett February 5, 2017A new study in Global Change Biology examines the effect of lower carbon dioxide levels on plant growth and finds, under lower carbon dioxide levels, plants do less well.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Agricultural Innovations Show the Way to Adapt to a Warmer World
by H. Sterling Burnett November 13, 2016Recently two stories detailing agricultural innovations caught my eye. They intrigued me because they show, even if I’m wrong about the cause and possible consequences of climate change, people around the globe are discovering innovative ways to adapt to future climate changes regardless of the cause and the type of change.
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Economics
Economic Ideas: The Institutions and Economics of the Middle Ages, Part 1
by Richard Ebeling October 13, 2016In attempting to understanding the ideas and institutions of the period of history that is usually called the “Middle Ages” it must be kept in mind that this covers a time frame that easily is divided up into smaller periods, each of which can be seen to have its own unique characteristics and qualities.
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In 2009, there was a massive email leak from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Supporters of global warming claimed the disclosures were out of context while opponents claimed they showed efforts to manipulate data. One of the quoted emails, Professor Phil Jones, while discussing paleo-data used to reconstruct past temperatures, says, “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” (Emphasis added.) The House of Commons investigated and concluded, “insofar as we have been able to consider accusations of dishonesty—for example, Professor Jones’s alleged attempt to ‘hide the decline’—we consider that there is no case to answer.”
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Government Flutters Its Wings – and Industries Nationwide Are Blown Away
by Seton Motley March 10, 2016A Leftist governmental principle is the Butterfly Effect: “A property of chaotic systems…by which small changes in initial conditions can lead to large-scale and unpredictable variation in the future state of the system.”
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Heartland Daily Podcast – Kelly Bennett: Water Rights & Use It or Lose It
by Isaac Orr August 6, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Isaac Orr, a research fellow for energy policy speaks with Kelly Bennett. Bennett is a Director and Managing Partner at Ponderosa Advisors LLC, a company that develops strategies and provides advisory services for energy, agriculture and water sectors. Ponderosa Advisors recently created a new program called Water Sage. This web-based mapping program provides efficient, user-friendly access to this data, helping users evaluate key elements of water rights. Bennett joins the podcast today to discuss water rights.