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Indeed, tasting one of the "mind-changing" South American wines in our story "Making a Case for South America" might even plant the seed for a visit to Argentina and Chile.
FORBES: New Horizons
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So the news that, last month, a group of American and Russian researchers received a patent for an apomictic maize plant has probably caused a few flutters in seed-company boardrooms.
ECONOMIST: Genetic engineering
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So when I heard about a company that is using artificial intelligence, data scraping, and database calculations as a means to predict what seed varieties a farmer should plant to get the maximum yield from their exact plot of ground, my mind immediately started to ponder how this could be applied to marketers.
FORBES: Planting The Right Seed: What A Farmer Can Teach A Marketer
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Most information was then available free of charge on CNBC, the Weather Channel or Web sites run by Farm Journal and Pioneer, a seed and plant genetics division of DuPont.
FORBES: Third time's a charm for this little data provider. Or is it?
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The chances of a seed sprouting into a worthwhile plant are the same as those of winning the lottery, says Mr. Klug of Pink House Blooms.
WSJ: The Pot Business Suffers Growing Pains
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In other green design news, artist Michael Jantzen has released designs for a solar-powered seed-sowing machine that would plant flowers at sites of environmental destruction.
ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: flying electric car, 3D-printed livers and a two-story-tall bike
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However, poor farmers frequently cannot afford to buy new seed each season, so they take their chances and replant the best of their seed from year to year in the belief that a new plant that is not quite as good as its parent is better than no plant at all.
ECONOMIST: Terminator genes
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My analogy to put that in perspective is to me an idea is like a seed, and execution is the daily watering, tending and pruning of that plant.
FORBES: Kabam Co-Founder Holly Liu Talks Early Startup Failures