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Turning waste into black gold

Manitoba’s first composting co-operative, Compostages Manitoba Services Cooperative, is now ready to offer municipalities and agricultural producers an affordable and eco-responsible alternative to dealing with organic matter. Compostages Manitoba Services Cooperative will be hosting its first organizational meeting on Tuesday March 27 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cabane a Sucre in St. Pierre
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Farmers now have the ability to conduct their own cutting-edge ag research

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Conducting your own field-based studies can show exactly how a specific 
agronomic practice will perform in a particular field

Farmers need to step up and get involved in a new era of research, and it needs to be on farm, field scale, farmer driven, and collaborative, says Ty Faechner, executive director of the Agricultural Research and Extension Council of Alberta. “I don’t think traditional research will ever go away,” Faechner told attendees at the
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Experts search for ways to cut food waste

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Reuters — Cleaning your plate may not help feed starving children today, but the time-worn advice of mothers everywhere may help reduce food waste from the farm to the fork, help the environment and make it easier to feed the world’s growing population. Hard data is still being collected, but experts at the Reuters Food
Dairy cattle, News, Oilseeds

Farmers have a positive outlook, for good reason

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A recent survey by Farm Credit Canada found 80 per cent of farmers feel positive about the future and Agriculture Canada’s latest income forecasts will add to the rosy outlook. Net farm cash income for 2011 was $11.7 billion, Agriculture Canada said in a report. Factoring in depreciation cuts that number in half, but it
Dairy cattle, Opinion

Organic research achieving critical mass in science

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The modern organic agriculture movement started 100 years ago. Sir Albert Howard was an English mycologist who served as the imperial economic botanist to the government of India between 1905 and 1924. He was fascinated by the indigenous practices of Indian farmers, whom he called his professors. His 1940 book, An Agricultural Testament, has become
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Lies, damned lies… and statistics

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Last week began with the latest Canadian farm income outlook delivered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a report that by most accounts was pretty bullish on farm income projections for the next 10 years or so. In fact, it was the kind of report that is likely to have the farming community squirming for a
Cereals, Crops, News

2012 wheat midge forecast low to moderate

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North Dakota expects fewer wheat midge in 2012 and the outlook is similar for Manitoba. There could be some localized hot spots in western Manitoba but overall populations of the insect that can damage wheat kernels will be low to moderate, says Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives entomologist John Gavloski. The presence of wheat
Cereals, Crops, News

CWB books $6 billion in revenues for 2010-11

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Prairie wheat and barley growers saw payments of about $5.5 billion for their deliveries to the Canadian Wheat Board during the 2010-11 crop year. The CWB released its annual report for 2010-11 Feb. 21 showing $6.071 billion in combined pool revenue, with $3.792 billion paid out to pool participants, another $1.709 billion paid out through
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Cash for agroforestry project

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A$160,000 federal grant has been awarded to a Manitoba conservation district study the environmental and economic benefits of shelterbelts on ranches. The Upper Assiniboine River Conservation District will use the funding to study how agroforestry can reduce the costs associated with livestock production and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The project will evaluate various beneficial management
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Tyson Foods: High gasoline prices threaten beef demand

washington / reuters / U.S. consumers may try to save money by eating less meat if they continue to feel the pinch of high gasoline prices, the chief executive of Tyson Foods said Feb. 24. “People want meat… but it’s getting pretty expensive,” CEO Donnie Smith told reporters at an agricultural conference in Washington, D.C.

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