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Canada Pushing For Biotech Changes – for Sep. 23, 2010

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Canada is pushing international organizations and trading partners to accept low level levels of genetic engineering in crop shipments and adopt science-based trading rules, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Speaking to reporters from New Delhi, India, near the end of a country trade mission, he said he repeatedly raises the issue because of problems Canadian
Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto Cuts Jobs Locally, Company-Wide – for Sep. 16, 2010

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A job-cutting measure by Monsanto has eliminated two positions in Manitoba, eight in Canada and up to 700 overall. One management position and one administrative assistant position will be lost at Monsanto Canada’s head office in Winnipeg. Six positions in the company’s plant breeding division are also gone, including four in Guelph, one in Lethbridge
Crops

Whats Up – for Aug. 26, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] or call 204-944-5762. Sept. 8-9:AAFC-BRC Beef &Pasture Tour Grazing Solutions for Range and Pasture, Brandon Research Centre. Registration 8:45 a. m., lunch provided. For more info call 204-578-3604 or email [email protected]. Sept. 8-9:AAFC Brandon Research Centre beef and pasture tour. For more info call Heather Davis at 204-761-3914.
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WHAT’S Up – for Aug. 12, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events [email protected] call 204-944-5762. August 17: Manitoba Soil Science Society Summer Tour “The Interlake Influence.” Bus leaves Winnipeg at 7:45 a. m. and returns at 8:30 p. m. Lunch and supper included. For more info, contact Kim Brown-Livingston (MAFRI) at 745-0226 or visit the MSSS website at:http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/afs/soil_science/MSSS/. Aug. 21: Manitoba Farm
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WHAT’S Up – for Aug. 12, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events [email protected] or call 204-944-5762. August 17:Manitoba Soil Science Society Summer Tour “The Interlake Influence.” Bus leaves Winnipeg at 7:45 a. m. and returns at 8:30 p. m. Lunch and supper included. For more info, contact Kim Brown-Livingston (MAFRI) at 745-0226 or visit the MSSS website at:http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/afs/soil_science/MSSS/. Aug. 21:Manitoba Farm Mentorship’s
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Up – for Aug. 5, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] or call 204-944-5762. August 17:Manitoba Soil Science Society Summer Tour “The Interlake Influence.” Bus leaves Winnipeg at 7:45 a. m. and returns at 8:30 p. m. Lunch and supper included. For more info, contact Kim Brown-Livingston (MAFRI) at 745-0226 or visit the MSSS website at: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/afs/soil_science/MSSS/. Sept. 8
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Noxious Weed Or Crop Of The Future? – for Jul. 29, 2010

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If he wasn’t so busy trying to help farmers snuff it out, University of Arkansas weed scientist Ken Smith says he would be studying Palmer amaranth out of pure interest. Some of the very things that make amaranth – known as pigweed – such a formidable weed also flag its potential as a food crop.
News, Pulses

Up – for Jul. 29, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] or call 204-944-5762. Aug. 4 – Manitoba Pulse Growers Association summer tour,8:00 a. m. to noon, AAFC Morden Research Station. Carman tour available after lunch. For more info call 204-745-6488 or visit www.manitobapulse.ca. Aug. 5 – Manitoba Pulse Growers Association soybean tour,8 a. m. to noon, Richardson Kelburn
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto, BASF Increase Research Investment

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“The yield increases that we have achieved together in the field so far give us confidence that we can do more in our collaboration crops, which now include wheat.” – PETER ECKES, BASF PLANT SCIENCE PRESIDENT Monsanto Co. and BASF said July 7 they will nearly double their investments into an already established joint venture
Crops, Pulses

What’s Up – for Jul. 15, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762. July 21: Manitoba Provincial Grazing Tour in the North Parkland (Dauphin) area of the province. For more information call 622-2006 or email: pamela. [email protected]. July 21: University of Manitoba organic field tours, 1:30 p. m. and 6:30 p. m., Ian N. Morrison Research Farm, Carman. Contact

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