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Thorny Questions Emerge About Water Measure's Actual Effects

2013-10-07 23:33:19| PortlandOnline

Dirk Vanderhart in The Portland Mercury, October 4, 2013

Hog Producers Feeling Effects of Government Shutdown

2013-10-07 22:49:00| National Hog Farmer

The federal government shutdown, of course, has nothing to do with our business, but will have more and more profound impacts each day it drags on. You never know how much something means until it is gone certainly applies to this situation. We criticize, nitpick and fume with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over its data, but when there is nothing to criticize, nitpick and fume over, we see just how valuable those data are. read more

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Are models that show economic effects of climate change useless?

2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Economist: MODELS simplify. They are supposed to. It is a feature, not a bug. Their formulae may be complex but models deliberately omit some things in order to focus on others. They also leave out factors that cannot be modelled satisfactorily. That is understandable, but what if the factors that cannot be modelled make a huge difference to the outcome? And what if the things that are excluded tend to produce a systematic bias in the results? That is precisely the situation facing those who model the economic...

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CME: Effects of Financial Shutdown on Dairy, Livestock Products

2013-10-02 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - CME Group released a statement today regarding the federal government shutdown and its potential impact on the exchange’s dairy and livestock products, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.

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