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The dirt on drainage

April 15, 2012

It is laudable that the government is now talking about surface water management strategy for the province, but why don’t we just come out and say what this is really about? Drainage — the good, the bad and the ugly. The current policies are not enforceable and as a result, they are not respected. The

Hogs, Livestock, News, Opinion

Short-sighted solution to the wrong problem

By Laura Rance-Unger April 15, 2012

It would be giving the animal a gene, which nature made a mistake by not giving them.” If there is one sentence that captures why the world’s first GMO pig never made it to market, it would be this comment from one of the lead researchers on the University of Guelph project back in 2001.

Cereals, Crops, News

One GRL scientist and his revolutionary technology

April 7, 2012

By Val Ominski Protein has always made the wheat world go round, but it became even more important in the mid-1960s when some of the world’s major wheat producers began selling wheat according to protein content. In response, the Canadian Grain Commission developed a method for segregating wheat based on protein content — thereby increasing

Livestock, News

MLMMI calls for “commercially available” solid manure solutions

By Daniel Winters April 7, 2012

With a November 2013 deadline looming for compliance with the province’s manure phosphorus regulations, the Manitoba Livestock Manure Management Initiative (MLMMI) continues to look for solutions. In a recent call for proposals, the organization invited applications for projects examining commercially available technologies for storing, distributing, and making value-added use of the phosphorus-rich solid component of

Country Crossroads, The Jacksons

The Jacksons

By Rollin Penner April 7, 2012

They tell me that in Hawaii the temperature varies about 7° throughout the course of the year, and they say at the South Pole, while the temperature varies more than that, it nevertheless always stays below the freezing point. In other words there are places on earth that have no seasons, or more accurately, they

Country Crossroads, News

Questions for Reena

By Reena Nerbas March 14, 2012

Dear Reena, I have a beautifully embroidered tablecloth. It has a wide border of tiny cross-stitch and handmade lace edging that my mother made for me. It took her many years to make this. It has a real ink stain on it. Because it has been there for many years I really don’t know how

News

Yara eyes new Canada plant in fertilizer expansion

By Rod Nickel March 14, 2012

Yara International ASA, the world’s biggest producer of nitrogen fertilizer, is eyeing construction of a new $2-billion plant in Canada, among other options, as it looks to expand its production 40 per cent by 2016. Oslo-based Yara intends to add eight million tonnes to its global fertilizer production capacity, as projected population growth boosts demand

Cereals, Crops, News

Corn to take over Minnedosa plant this spring

By Shannon VanRaes March 14, 2012

Husky’s Minnedosa ethanol plan is set ditch wheat and focus on corn during a two-month-long run this spring. “In the next couple of months, March and April, we’re going to do a 100 per cent corn run,” said Raymond Dyck, Husky Minnedosa’s grain marketing co-ordinator. “This is the first time we have gone to 100

Crops, News, Oilseeds, Weather

Overdrying canola can be a costly mistake

By Daniel Winters March 14, 2012

Air can dry grain, or it can make it wetter. That’s because grain automatically reaches equilibrium with the ambient relative humidity as it is drawn into the bin via fans. Theoretically, this fact could be used to boost profits by adding tonnage via moisture content until the grain reaches the optimum nine to 10 per

News

Fashionistas fancy green as the new black

By Reuters March 14, 2012

Could “green” be the new black? Perhaps if you can imagine wearing stilettos made from pistachio nuts and coffee beans and clothes from orange peel, fungi and mould. While the fashion pack is hitting the catwalks at Paris Fashion Week, students at London’s Kingston University are trying to lower the clothing and accessory industry’s carbon

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

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