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Funds For Hemp Processing

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The federal government is injecting more than $728,000 to help the hemp industry increase production capacity and make new inroads into the U.S. market. The Honourable Vic Toews, minister of public safety, made the announcement Dec. 13 on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. “Canadian farmers and processors are finding tremendous success with hemp thanks
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Fungus Gene Map Offers Hope Against Cereal Disease

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Scientists may be able to find new ways to tackle plant diseases after discovering how a fungus attacks barley, a staple around the world and a main ingredient in brewing and malting. In a study in the journalScience on Dec. 9, researchers from Imperial College London said they had decoded the gene map of Blumeria,
Crops, Forages, Livestock

Gerrish: Making, Feeding Hay Makes No Sense

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It’s almost always easier to save a dollar than it is to earn one. Earning generally requires sweat, toil, and tied-up capital, while saving is often simply a case of doing less. “Why are we in the hay business, when we’re really in the livestock business?” asked Jim Gerrish, an independent grazing lands consultant from
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Weed Science Meet Looks At Risk Of Runaway Crops

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Creating super varieties through genetic modification and introducing new crops could open a Pandora’s box of problems, according to some leading weed scientists. Farmers have long battled introduced crops such as kochia – a drought-tolerant, prolific forage that is now one of the most abundant weeds in North America. “The invasion by crops is not
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Private Equity Sees “Buckets Of Money” In Water Buys

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Water scarcity will generate big returns for the irrigation sector once climate change and population growth take their toll on farming, private equity managers said Nov. 9. Asked at an agriculture investing conference whether it is possible to make money from water, typically a public good rather than a bankable commodity, Judson Hill of NGP
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Food Security Risk If Crop Biodiversity Lost

Future global food security may be at risk unless greater efforts are made to conserve and use the genetic diversity of cultivated crops and their wild relatives, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said. The world’s cereals output needs to rise by one billion tonnes a year by 2050 to feed a population that
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Buy Manitoba Program Set To Launch In New Year

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Acampaign promot ing Manitoba food is almost ready to launch – just as soon as organizers nail down a definition of local food. “Local means different things to different people,” said Dave Shambrock, executive director of the Manitoba Food Processors Association, who has overseen the stakeholder group designing the Buy Manitoba initiative “From the food
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Higher Hemp Yields Make Farmers Happy

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Canada’s hemp crop came off in reasonably good shape this year, despite some problems with excessive moisture earlier in the growing season. The crop is grown across Canada, but the majority of the acres are in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Anndrea Hermann, who works for Hemp Oil Canada, a Manitoba-based hempseed processor, and is vice-president of
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Blending Farmer Innovation With Science

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A60-bushel-per-acre crop of wheat would make any farmer proud, but how about one that was grown without pesticides or non-organic fertilizer? That’s how organic wheat yielded last year on a 1.5-acre field plot at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm at Carman. The average wheat yield in the R. M. of Dufferin,
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Production Down: No Surprise

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Grain and oilseed production estimates in the latest crop production survey from Statistics Canada for the period ended Sept. 9 held few surprises, according to industry sources. “Some of the production estimates were a bit smaller than had been anticipated, and that was the only real surprise,” said Ron Frost with Agri-Trend Marketing Inc. and

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