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Star power advertising, but not for junk food

Entertainment and sports celebrities promote the ‘FNV’ brand

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 5, 2015

A U.S. organization that promotes healthy eating is taking a page from the playbook of its junk food competitors. It’s launched FNV — a brand focused on increasing consumption and sales of fruits and vegetables among teens and moms. Last week it announced a campaign to promote FNV using entertainment and sports celebrities such as

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Kochia: ‘the cockroach of the plant world’

Weed can duplicate extra copies of a gene  which is resistant to glyphosate

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 26, 2015

A Kansas State University weed scientist says he’s figured out why glyphosate-resistant kochia is like a “cockroach of the plant world.” Mithila Jugulam, assistant professor of agronomy, led a study that looked at how kochia evolved resistance to the herbicide. The researchers found that kochia has evolved to have multiple copies of a gene code

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Small farms maintain crop diversity

Rather than preserving ‘heirloom’ varieties,  they participate in an ongoing process of outcrossing

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 19, 2015

As much as 75 per cent of global seed diversity in staple food crops is held and actively used by a wide range of smallholder farms, many of which are close to urban areas, says a geographer from Penn State University. Karl Zimmerer and his colleagues looked at new census data from 11 countries in

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Chocolate snorting offers new way to a cocoa high

Selections include chocolate flavoured with bacon and onion, oysters and even grass

By Miranda Alexander-webber February 12, 2015

When Belgian chocolatier Dominique Persoone created a chocolate-sniffing device for a Rolling Stones party in 2007, he never imagined demand would stretch much beyond the rock ’n’ roll scene. But, seven years later, he has sold 25,000 of them. Inspired by a device his grandfather used to propel tobacco snuff up his nose, Persoone created

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Blast off to better soil moisture measures

A NASA satellite to measure water in Earth’s soil has gone into orbit

By Irene Klotz February 5, 2015

An unmanned Delta 2 rocket lifted off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Jan. 31 carrying a NASA satellite to measure moisture in the top layer of the Earth’s soil, data to be used in weather forecasting and tracking of global climate change. Soil moisture is a variable that binds together all of

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Cap’n Crunch and chocolate chip cookies don’t score well

Researchers find that Canadian and U.S. labelling systems  make little difference

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 29, 2015

Canadian and U.S. nutrition labelling systems aren’t helpful in helping consumers make wise food choices, say McGill University researchers. In a study published in the December issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, the researchers compared four different labelling systems and found that the Nutrition Facts label currently required on most

Research proves that he likes it better than the white stuff.

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Rural kids like milk better (especially if it’s free)

School milk consumption dropped by almost half  when chocolate was not available

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 23, 2015

Kids drink more chocolate milk than regular milk when offered a choice, and rural kids drink more milk than urban kids when it’s offered free. That’s the conclusion of “Impact of the removal of chocolate milk from school milk programs for children in Saskatoon, Canada,” a paper published Jan. 14 in the journal Applied Physiology,

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‘Nazi’ cattle prove too hard to handle for British farmer

Breed was an attempt to recreate cattle’s wild ancestors

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 15, 2015

A British farmer has culled his herd of “Nazi” cattle from 20 to six because the animals were considered too dangerous to handle. According to a story in The Guardian, in 2009, Derek Gow imported 13 Heck cattle to his Devon farm for study and as subjects for photography. Wikipedia says Heck cattle originated in

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Weak bones? Agriculture may be to blame

Lack of loading rather than lack of nutrition may be the reason

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 8, 2015

The invention of agriculture may have allowed for many human advances, but strong bones may not be one of them, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. Writing in the journal PNAS, they say that human skeletons have become much lighter and more fragile since the invention of agriculture. Hunter-gatherers from around 7,000 years ago

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Shooting wolves backfires on livestock

Lethal control leads to more dead sheep and cattle

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 6, 2015

The best way to control wolf populations and minimize livestock predation may be to stop shooting, trapping and poisoning them, Washington State University researchers say. A review of 25 years of data from lethal control programs from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services found that shooting and trapping the carnivores leads to more dead sheep

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FCC raises inflation forecast on surging commodity prices

U.S. urges WTO members to rethink core tariff rule in face of China threat

Speculators add to bullish bets in canola

Did you know?

Star power advertising, but not for junk food

Kochia: ‘the cockroach of the plant world’

Small farms maintain crop diversity

Chocolate snorting offers new way to a cocoa high

Blast off to better soil moisture measures

Rural kids like milk better (especially if it’s free)

‘Nazi’ cattle prove too hard to handle for British farmer

Weak bones? Agriculture may be to blame

Shooting wolves backfires on livestock

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