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Local Food Activists Urged To Seek Common Cause With Farmers

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The modern warehouse-on- wheels food distribution system, with its just-in-time delivery from producers to processors, and finally to retailers, works just fine. But there is a dark side. Not only is it totally dependent on a smoothly functioning economy and uninterrupted supplies of fossil fuel for powering every link in the chain, it is also
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McKenzie Seeds Shows Off Its New Location

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The recession has actually helped Canada’s largest packet seed company and the local-food trend and food scares are also boosting business. “We have noticed that there has been an increased interest in gardening in the last couple of seasons, which may be attributed to the uncertain economy and contributing factors such as food safety,” said
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Equestrian Centre Will Border RMNP

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Molly Kelleher, 24, has been “nuts about horses” for as long as she can remember. When she was 14 years old, Molly’s parents, John and Nancy, purchased a four-year-old quarter- horse, “Tug,” for her for Christmas and the gift made her surer than ever that horses would be her life and career. Molly describes her
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In Brief… – for Oct. 21, 2010

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Baltic stake:Viterra Inc. is opening a new marketing office in Kiev, Ukraine. “By establishing our company in key geographic areas such as Ukraine, we extend our ability to manage trade flows of food ingredients, freight activities and arbitrage opportunities, while managing price risk,” said Christian Joerg, vice-president and managing director, Europe.Net trade exports of wheat,
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Researchers Study Skink Habitat

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Many people have never seen a Northern Prairie Skink, an unusual little reptile with the amazing ability to escape predators by shedding and regrowing their tail. Unfortunately the skink is an endangered species and its future is uncertain. The Northern Prairie Skink (skink) is listed as a Species at Risk that is only found in
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Farmers Large And Small Voice Concerns Over Wetland Preservation

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“How do you put a dollar value on birds nesting, or deer, or rare plants? It’s like trying to put a dollar value on different members of your family.” – AL ROGOSIN Farmers support wetlands, but don’t believe they should carry the cost of preserving them alone, participants in a public consultation on the future
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Rural Volunteer Boards Taxed To The Max

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Rural volunteers who serve on community-based boards are frequently struggling with the complexities of their job and lack sources of help and advice. Those are conclusions drawn from an exploration of volunteer involvement on rural community-based boards done by a Brandon University adult student earning her masters of rural development. Betty Kelly, who lives, and,
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Southwest Explores Strategies For Immigration

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Southeastern Manitoba has scored big in their efforts to attract thousands of new immigrants to work in industries there. Now towns in southwestern Manitoba – Deloraine, Melita and Virden and others – want to attract them too. “We’ve seen the success stories out of places like Morden and Winkler,” said Shirley Bell, an economic development
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“Alternative” Systems Get Mainstream Funding

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“We’re thinking about more diverse ways of building relationships across the Prairie provinces. We’re not talking about 100-mile diets here.” – STPHANE MCLACHLAN The federal government is providing $1 million for a five-year project in Manitoba to develop more community-based alternative food systems for rural, urban and northern Manitoba. The Community University Research Alliance (CURA)

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