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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, shown here Sunday at Day of Unity celebrations in Astana, announced a cabinet shuffle Friday in response to rare public protests against farmland ownership reforms. (Akorda.kz)
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Kazakh president meets farmland protests with reshuffle

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Astana | Reuters — Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, facing opposition calls for a demonstration in the business centre Almaty, completed a government reshuffle initiated this week in response to street protests against farmland privatisation plans. Economy minister Yerbolat Dosayev and agriculture minister Asylzhan Mamytbekov, whose ministries were behind the planned land reform, both resigned after
Serge Buy
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Ag researchers calling for ongoing research evolution

The new federal government’s been saying all the right things, but that hasn’t translated into a lot of concrete action yet

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A new federal government with a new focus has agriculture researchers feeling more hopeful, but they’re still waiting for clear signs research spending will rise. Serge Buy, the Agriculture Institute of Canada’s CEO, said the budget promised additional funding for agriculture research and restoration of federal labs that do basic science. It also restated a
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Livestock

P.E.I. brings provincial vet job in-house

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Relying until now on the services of the Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island’s government has named a new in-house provincial veterinarian. The province on Tuesday named Dr. Carolyn Sanford to fill the post, in which she’ll oversee policy and regulatory issues related to animal health and welfare, including livestock and poultry as well as
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 1

Conditions as of May 2, 2016

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Favourable weather and field conditions have allowed seeding operations to get underway in many areas of Manitoba. Provincially, it is estimated 10 per cent of the 2016 crop has been seeded. Most seeding progress is reported in the Southwest and Central Regions. A range of soil moisture conditions exists across the province. There are localized
Cutaway of Plant and Roots in Dirt
Comment, Crops

Healthy soils mean a sustainable future

Causes, consequences of and solutions to soil erosion are always connected

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Healthy societies and healthy economies are the product of healthy soil. Healthy soil produces abundant inexpensive food in a sustainable and reliable way. This requires soil care on the part of land managers and courage on the part of policy-makers who oversee soil protection. Scientists who understand soil formation tell us the only sustainable way
(UCCS.ucdavis.edu)
Crops, Weather

California communities beg for relief from drought restrictions

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Sacramento | Reuters — California communities where a wet winter has filled reservoirs and begun ameliorating the state’s catastrophic four-year drought begged water regulators on Wednesday to reduce or eliminate emergency conservation measures imposed last year. Facing pushback from aggravated consumers under the ongoing rules, water utilities say they will have little credibility asking for
Mount Roraima, Venezuela. (Cia.gov)
Livestock

Venezuela ordered to pay U.K. firm for ranch takeovers

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Caracas | Reuters –– An international arbitration centre has ordered Venezuela to pay British cattle company Vestey Group nearly US$100 million for the nationalization of cattle ranches, pilling fresh pressure on the cash-strapped leftist government. Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chavez in 2005 sent in soldiers to seize major ranches and repopulate rural areas largely abandoned

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