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Grain Growers Offers Budget Wish List

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Modest changes in government policy could reap major benefits for farmers, the Grain Growers of Canada says in a pre-budget consultation paper for the Commons Finance Committee. Making agriculture research a key priority and rewarding producers for good environmental farm practices are among the suggestions GGC has for the committee, which holds hearings this fall
News, Oilseeds

Dow Introduces Triple-Resistant Soybean

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Dow AgroSciences is launching a genetically altered soybean seed aimed as a direct assault on the dominance of global seed leader Monsanto. Dow submitted a regulatory package on Aug. 19 seeking government approval for a glyphosate-tolerant soybean that the company says would be the “first-ever, three-gene,” herbicide-tolerant soybean. The new soybean will be tolerant of
News, Oilseeds

Syngenta Sues Bunge Over Rejection Of GMO Corn Type

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Syngenta Seeds, a unit of the world’s largest agrochemicals company Syngenta AG, has filed suit against major grain handler Bunge for refusing to accept a type of its biotech corn. Syngenta claims Bunge’s North America operations are illegally refusing to handle a type of genetically modified corn that is designed to protect the crop against
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Late Blight Found In Tomatoes

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The first case of late blight, the bane of Manitoba tomato growers last year, was confirmed last week on garden tomatoes in Ashern. Five cases of the fungal disease responsible for the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s, have been detected in potatoes, including in a “sentinel” plot at the Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre near
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In Brief… – for Aug. 25, 2011

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Correction:Due to an editing mistake, an opinion piece from Lydia Johnson which appeared in the Aug. 11 issue, contains the erroneous statement: “They did this fully knowing that they were going to ‘stuff’ this water into the already overcapacitated Lake Manitoba, which does have a proper outlet drain for the extra diverted waters to go
Crops, Opinion

Unearthing The Potential

As I looked down at the thick mat of rotting vegetation PhD student Caroline Halde was holding up for me to peruse, it was hard to fathom – at first – why anyone but the most devoted of researchers would find this exciting. I was at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm
Cereals, Opinion

Joe Farmer Goes To Washington (Part 2)

Ihave to admit I didn’t pay much attention to Dan Glickman when he was U.S. secretary of agriculture for the Clinton administration in the late 90’s, but I did have a chance to listen to his keynote address at the Soil and Water Conservation Society’s (SWCS) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. What struck me was
Livestock

Cattle Herd Shrinks, Hog Numbers Increase

Canada’s cattle herd shrank as of July 1 to its smallest in 17 years, while the number of hogs rose by mid-year for the first time in five years, Statistics Canada said Aug. 22. Farmers had nearly 13.9 million head of cattle on their farms, down 0.8 per cent from a year ago, continuing a
Country Crossroads

Try Sowing Seeds For A Fall Crop

Late summer is the ideal time to start your fall garden. You may be able to grow a “second season” crop of your favourite cool-season vegetables and lovely fall flowers. Now is the time to gear up for some additional growing weather, which lies in the cooler season ahead. WHAT TO GROW Sometimes, gardeners don’t

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