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Elections Manitoba reaches out to young voters
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Elections Manitoba reaches out to young voters

Grade 11 and 12 students can get paid to work on election day

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Three hands-on programs invite young Manitobans to engage in the electoral process during the upcoming provincial election. CitizenNext, the Student Information Officer program, and Your Power to Choose are designed to foster the habit of electoral participation among children and youth. “By providing opportunities for young people to participate in this election, we hope to
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Plant-based egg offers new market for soybeans

Does this mean we can go back to eating raw cookie dough?

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An Iowa company has launched a soy-based egg substitute in a bid to capitalize on shaken processor confidence after avian influenza caused egg shortages and price spikes in the U.S. last year. Sioux Natural is promoting Veggan, a gluten-free, plant-based egg alternative that can be used for baking waffles, doughnuts, cookies, muffins, cake mixes and
Bringing out the ‘wild side’ of fruits and veggies
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Bringing out the ‘wild side’ of fruits and veggies

It might be a cheaper alternative than developing new methods

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The natural ability of plants to fend off pests is falling through the cracks in our modern quest for fruits and vegetables varieties that have larger sizes, better colour and a longer shelf life, researchers with Newcastle University in the U.K. say. A study published recently in the academic journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development said
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A little Italian seasoning cuts greenhouse gases

Oregano is believed to reduce methane levels in cow burps

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Scientists with Aarhus University in Denmark have launched a four-year study studying the effects of adding oregano to dairy rations as a means of reducing the amount of methane they burp. If their theory that methane emissions from dairy cows can be reduced by up to 25 per cent is confirmed, the tactic would become
A worker opens a Parmesan cheese wheel at a warehouse owned by Credito Emiliano bank in Montecavolo, near Reggio Emila, central Italy.
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A cheese wheel backs up this deal

An Italian company is selling bonds based on Parmesan

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An Italian dairy co-operative has sold bonds backed by Parmesan cheese, the company said, a rare example of one of the country’s plethora of small firms raising funding on capital markets. Three years of recession have choked bank lending and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s government is trying to encourage firms to raise money elsewhere and
Tsetse flies spread the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.
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The upside of no sex life

It may spell the end for the parasite responsible for 
African sleeping sickness

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An unusual sex life may spell the extinction of the deadly African sleeping sickness parasite, which threatens millions of people in West and Central Africa, an international team of scientists said Jan. 27. The parasite, called T.b. gambiense, has not had sex for thousands of years and is now made up entirely of asexual clones
Hand-held weed-blasting unit used to control weeds in organic plots.
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A gritty new tool in the war against weeds

Weed and feed your crop with blasted soybean meal

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Researchers with the University of Illinois have come up with a new tactic in the war against weeds: blasting. “Abrasive weeding,” a strategy that may prove most useful for small-scale organic growers, is proving to be “surprisingly effective,” university researchers say in a release. In conjunction with plastic mulch, abrasive weeding reduced final weed biomass
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The link between meat and manhood

Meat has symbolized masculinity since the Stone Age

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Researchers with the University of Hawaii have used crowdsourcing to raise funds for research into why men believe eating meat makes them more masculine. “Many men would gladly embrace the health risks associated with red meat rather than taking the slightest risk of being associated with the feminine attributes of a vegetarian diet,” said lead
A polar bear sculpture made of ice stands outside the Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen at the facility’s opening in February 2008. The vault has been built in a mountainside cavern on Spitsbergen Island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole to store the world’s crop seeds in case of disaster.
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Doomsday Arctic seed vault to receive two deposits in 2016

The vault built to protect the world's seed supplied is built into the side of a Norwegian mountain

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Two new consignments of crop seeds will be deposited this year in the “doomsday vault” built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global supplies. The vault — which opened on the Svalbard archipelago between Norway and the North Pole in 2008 — is designed to protect crop seeds such as beans, rice and wheat against
A Steppler Farms Ltd. field supper near Miami, Man.
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Groups that eat together work better together

Those field suppers are about more than good grub; they're 'social glue'

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Getting the farm crew together for a sit-down meal — even if it’s in the field or machinery shed — is about more than getting people fed a hot meal with a minimum of downtime. It’s also good for business. Cornell University researchers say workplaces that invest in good eats as well as good places

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