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Minimal U. S. Food, Drink Price Hikes Seen In 2010

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The days of big price increases for U. S. food and drinks makers are likely over due to easing ingredient costs and high unemployment levels that weigh on consumer spending, credit rating agency Fitch Ratings said. For food companies, 2010 sales should increase by low single digits, in line with long-term forecasts, Fitch said, noting
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Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for Nov. 26, 2009

RECIPE SWAP You don’t often sit down to a plate of scones nowadays. They’re a simple treat from simpler days when more of us baked from scratch. I made scones last week using a favourite recipe – see below – and started to wonder about the origin of the word. One theory is that the
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Old-time threshing event

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After what seemed like weeks of cloudy weather, Saturday, October 31 began clear and sunny, while volunteers gathered at Hidden Springs Ranch, the Lake Audy home of Frank and Linda Wilkinson. Frank and Linda, married for over 33 years, decided to tackle their harvest the way it was done a half a century ago, with
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Money Grows On Trees

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By actively managing about 100 acres of hardwood forest, David Pogson figures he and his brother Barry’s sawmill sideline might eventually account for about one-third of their farm income within a decade. Out of the seven-acre plot from which they are doing a managed harvest, they have already removed 30 cords of firewood in the
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Big Timber On Manitoba Prairie

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Building a farm workshop these days is as easy as picking up the phone. But David Pogson and his brother Barry decided to take the cheaper, more labour-intensive – and they would argue – more fun route. With a homemade sawmill, an apron-winch equipped tractor and a neighbour with a stand of 80-foot hybrid poplars
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Fiesta Chicken Soup

RECIPE SWAP I’m surprised that widely publicized list of items to stock up on in case flu hits doesn’t mention chicken soup. Sure, we need plenty of facial tissues and Tylenol around, and a thermometer too, but what’s to eat when illness strikes? The curative effects of chicken soup aren’t just folkloric. A few years
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Adequate Sleep Important For Health

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Diet and exercise often are touted as ways to maintain or improve our health. Sometimes, however, people don’t give adequate sleep its due attention. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), adults need seven to nine hours of sleep per day. Adolescents need 8.5 to nine hours of sleep. Children ages five
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Manitoba Hosting 2010 Finals

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Virden will be the site of a special Manitoba moment in August 2010. Hosting the Canadian High School Rodeo Finals (CHSRF) on behalf of the Manitoba High School Rodeo Association (MHSRA), the welcome mat will be rolled out to teams of athletes and their families from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario for three days

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