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Solution To Bee Colony Deaths Found

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Long the scourge of beehives, the varroa mite has emerged as the leading suspect in the mysterious decline of honeybee colonies across Canada, says a University of Guelph researcher. In an article in the online scientific publication Apidologie, which is devoted to bees, Ernesto Guzman and his research team say that 85 per cent of
Crops

Wireworm Control A Looming Problem

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Wireworm control could become a troublesome issue for Canadian potato growers in the next couple of years, says a research scientist from AAFC’s Agassiz Research Centre in British Columbia. But Bob Vernon told the recent Manitoba Potato Days meeting that the best control tool on the market is about to disappear, which could leave Canadian
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Food Prices To Remain High

“If we get a climate shock in one of the major producing countries, then we are back to Square 1.” – JACQUES DIOUF Food prices are likely to rise again on resumed demand for agricultural commodities for food and energy and higher input costs due to rising oil prices, the United Nations’ food agency said
Opinion

The Colour Of Farm Politics

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A lot of Europeans travel but don’t seem to worry about consuming GM crops while on holiday in another country. Green is the new Red. In other words, a big part of the Green movement is fuelled by people with a philosophy that used to be called Red – a philosophy that’s anti-business and anti-development.
Crops

Organic No-Till Pioneer Explains Strategy

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When Jeff Moyer, farm manager of the Rodale Institute, started cutting back on tillage out of concern for the long-term health of the soil on the institute’s 330-acre research farm in southeast Pennsylvania, he faced a predictable result. Weeds – and lots of them. “Year after year, our weed pressure was building until it was
Opinion

Potash “Oligopoly” May Crack In Longer Term

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“The oligopoly’s discipline has formed the backbone for the group’s valuation.” – DAHLMAN ROSE AND CO. REPORT Amajor U. S. investment bank following the potash sector sees a “ratcheting up” in the sector’s risk profile that may suggest a possible shift in market competition in the longer term. In a recent report on its longer-term
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Aphid Killer Remains Available In Manitoba

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“The procedural problem that has been identified in the U. S. didn’t occur here.” – PIERRE BEAUCHAMP, PMRA The abrupt removal of the agricultural insecticide spirotetramat from the market in the United States will not affect the product’s status in this country. “The short answer is no,” said Pierre Beauchamp of Health Canada’s Pest Management
Crops

Science The Solution, Says Ex-PM

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“We need clarity of purpose if we are to achieve the great goal of feeding everyone, everywhere.” – JAMES BOLGER To feed nine billion people by 2050, world agriculture will have to pull out all the stops. Achieving the goal of both feeding the world and protecting the environment will require abandoning “romantic” notions of
Cereals, Crops

Healthy Soil The Key, Says Bio-Ag Pioneer

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“My father’s generation could grow wheat without any problems. The present generation can hardly grow a bushel of wheat without the use of fungicides.” – Gerald Wi Ebe Prior to the Second World War, “chemical” agriculture didn’t exist. In Gerald Wiebe’s opinion, it’s all been downhill ever since for farmers, their soil and consumers. In
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AMM Calls For Case-By-Case Rules

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Delegates at the AMM annual convention want the provincial government to back off on regulations that will phase out and ban new installations of sewage ejectors. The Onsite Wastewater Management Systems regulation, which would cover installations from private dwellings and businesses which generate a waste water flow of less than 10,000 litres per day, drew

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