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Food Fight Challengers Sought

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The fifth annual Great Manitoba Food Fight is open for challengers, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers announced Nov. 24. Manitobans with a great new food or beverage idea are invited to enter the Great Manitoba Food Fight scheduled in April as part of the 2011 Capturing Opportunities event. “In the past four
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Mead, Beer And Sausage Earn Top Prizes

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Creators of mead, beer and sausages have taken home this year’s top prizes at the Great Manitoba Food Fight. Hobby winemaker Mitchell Omichinski, a Portage la Prairie resident and longtime beekeeper won first prize of $15,000 for his Maple Mead, produced from honey and maple syrup. Second place of $10,000 went to St. Claude farmer
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Briefs continued – for Feb. 18, 2010

Fatal mishap: A driver who abandoned a broken-down half-ton and a set of heavy harrows partially obstructing the traffic lane on a major highway overnight has been charged with criminal negligence causing death after a car collided with the equipment, killing the occupant. The accident on Hwy. 16 near Russell June 27, 2009 killed Jason
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Equipment Dealers Back Technician Training

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Canada’s largest farm equipment dealer association says it hopes to help boost the number of properly trained farm equipment technicians through what it calls its biggest donation ever to a partner college. The Canada West Equipment Dealers Association said March 20 it has approved a $300,000 contribution to Assiniboine Community College (ACC) at Brandon. The
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Four Degrees Either Way Is A Big Deal, Says Expert

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Climate change skeptics like to point out that if the weatherman can’t predict the weather with much accuracy, how can scientists be sure that global warming is actually happening? The answer is that putting together a weather forecast involves many often conflicting short-term variables. Analyzing climate trends over the long term is much easier, because
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ACC Forum To Discuss Climate Change

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David Barber used to be a skeptic. Barber has spent almost 30 years studying sea ice in the Arctic region. For the first 10 years he thought that changes he was observing in the ice, and the effects they had on the Arctic ecosystem, were as a result of natural variability. He was not convinced
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Project to map traditional medicinal plants

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Two Assiniboine Community College instructors have secured a $25,000 grant from Manitoba Conservation to document medicinal Aboriginal plant species in southwestern Manitoba. The grant, funded through the Sustainable Development Innovations Fund, will allow the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to inventory and document medicinal lands that are important to

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