With Western Australia's biggest grain grower, John Nicoletti thinking of selling his 81,000 hectare properties to Qatar based company, Hassad Food I thought it would be good to understand a bit more on the Arab world. Hassad Food how has about 200,000 hectares ($500 million) of Australian land. Agriculture needs more capital investment so what are they looking for and how can we benefit with mutual cooperation? The below documentary helped me understand a bit about their world.

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Need a quick 10 minute full body workout give this a try. Thanks Lisa for making this for BioStim readers.

Lisa show us the best Ab exercises for BioStim readers :)

Was sent this 45 minute video from a friend. Great way to build a team. Is your team all working on the most important priorities? How to give you team ownership and respect their input. There needs to be a message stick in every meeting :)

I don't know how many end of the world days I have gone through but another is coming on the 21st of December. It looks like they have got the dates wrong and it really won't end as the Mayan's reference dates after the 21st. I guess some people like to be alarmists. It is a bit concerning when these alarmists don't check the facts and some people become distort. The same happens with climate change, agriculture, health alarmists.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-04/doomsday-pediction-for-xmas/4351808

“By cheating and deceiving his organic farming customers, Mr. Townsley took advantage of their trust and undermined the integrity of an entire industry,” said Haag. It is no different in Australia as there are organic fertiliser companies doing the same thing. Hopefully the organic community can flush out these companies so it isn't ruined for the honest certified organic suppliers. You can find a list of good certified suppliers at http://www.ofa.org.au/ .

Read the full story at http://www.growingproduce.com/article/31751/phony-organic-fertilizer-purveyor-gets-one-year-in-prison

You might be thinking what are Bitcoins but you can find out more below. This increases flexibility for customers and they don't have to reply on artificially inflated money.

Nice short film on the reason we need others to create products. Isolationists can't even make a pencil. Nothing wrong with being a isolationists just don't force others to be via laws/regulations/taxes. We have some huge challenges ahead in agriculture and we need the best people in the world to solve these issues.