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Surely it beats serving in Iraq?

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 30, 2012

U.S. employment firm CareerCast has issued its annual ratings of best and worst jobs, and it isn’t good news if you are trying to hire someone for your dairy farm. Dairy farmer ranked as the second-worst job for 2012, worse than last year, when it ranked 16th. Poor working environment and stress coupled with physical

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Making perfumes sans the whale barf

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 20, 2012

University of British Columbia researchers have identified a gene in balsam fir trees that could substitute for ambergris, a perfume fixative made from whale barf. When sperm whales consume sharp objects, such as seashells and fish bones, their gut produces a sticky substance to protect their digestive organs. They then regurgitate the mixture — much

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Beware of food that leaves you tingling

By Mio Coxon April 15, 2012

Reuters / With a scoop of a net Tokyo chef, Naohito Hashimoto selects a poisonous blowfish, considered a delicacy in Japan, and with a few deft strokes of his gleaming knife starts the delicate process of preparing it for a customer. In moments, Hashimoto has separated the edible parts of the fish from organs filled

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Chocolate may be good for your waistline

By Reuters April 7, 2012

People who ate chocolate a few times a week or more weighed less than those who rarely indulged, according to a U.S. study involving 1,000 people. Researchers said the findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, don’t prove that adding a candy bar to your daily diet will help you shed pounds. Nor did

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Maggots eyed as animal feed

By Wendell Roelf March 29, 2012

Reuters / Families tucking into a Sunday roast dinner may not relish the idea of animals fattened on maggots, but a British entrepreneur in South Africa believes they’re a viable protein-rich animal feed alternative. AgriProtein Technologies plans to set up the world’s first large-scale factory in South Africa to produce “Magmeal,” an organic and sustainable

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Farming is so profitable that…

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 15, 2012

In a new twist that is probably a sign of the times in the U.S. economy, a 347-acre golf course in Illinois will be sold by auction Feb. 21. Though it might be just a clever way to attract free publicity for the auction, the company handling the sale issued a news release speculating that

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Germany hunts out deer-calling champion

By Alice Baghdjian February 14, 2012

Hunting enthusiasts grunted, bawled and bellowed last week in the battle to be named Germany’s champion deer caller. The 18 men and one woman used seashells, ox horns and hollow plant stems to perfect their deer calls. This year’s winner, Tasso Wolzenburg, said he was impressed with the competition. “Even if I were a real

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Life’s biggest mystery still has him stumped

By Cambridge, Reuters January 25, 2012

When Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s best-known scientists, was asked what he wonders about most, the Cambridge University professor renowned for unravelling some of the most complex questions in modern physics had his answer ready. “Women. They are a complete mystery,” quipped the author of A Brief History of Time. The wheelchair-bound Hawking, who

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Did you know?

Surely it beats serving in Iraq?

Making perfumes sans the whale barf

Beware of food that leaves you tingling

Chocolate may be good for your waistline

Maggots eyed as animal feed

Farming is so profitable that…

Germany hunts out deer-calling champion

Life’s biggest mystery still has him stumped

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