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Cyclone May Be Tipping Point In Australia Climate Policy Debate

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Australia has endured two of its deadliest summers on record, blamed in part on global warming, but record fires, floods and cyclones have not persuaded it to take strong action on climate change. But some experts hope that the arrival of giant Cyclone Yasi on the coast of Queensland, already hit by massive floods last
Cereals, Livestock

Free Trade Talks With Morocco Wins Praise From Ag Sector

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Canadian farm groups and the Canadian Wheat Board were quick with praise last week for a federal initiative to launch free trade negotiations with Morocco, saying a deal is needed to keep Canadian durum and pulse exports competitive with shipments from the United States. The U.S. has had an FTA with the North African country
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Shoppers Rate Products By IPhone

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Take your iPhone into a supermarket and go up to a product on the shelf. Hold the iPhone next to the bar code on the package and take a picture. Within seconds, a colour – green, yellow or red – comes up on the screen, along with a single-digit number. The colour tells you how
Weather

Forecasts For The Rest Of The Winter

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As we start the new year I have to admit that I haven’t had the time to go through all the weather data for 2010, so a complete summary of last year will have to wait until the next issue. Instead, we’ll take our usual look back at the previous month’s weather and then peer
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Heavy Rains To Increase Colombia Inflation

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Strong rains flooding agricultural land and washing away roads in Colombia will increase inflation but not so much as to change consumer price targets, officials said Dec. 6. Bad weather has affected commodity-producing countries worldwide, from rains stalling the wheat harvest in Australia to dry spells in some of Argentina’s soy-growing areas and oil refinery
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Sudan Targets Food Self-Sufficiency In Five Years

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Sudan will prioritize agriculture to target self-sufficiency within five years after the devastation of decades of civil wars, its agriculture minister said Nov. 22. Africa’s largest country must diversify its economy away from oil – from which it derives more than 90 per cent of its foreign exchange revenues – as the oil-producing south is
Weather

Forecast – for Oct. 21, 2010

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If you’ve been watching the “Chance of precipitation falling as snow” statistic located at the bottom of the forecast each week, you may notice it really begins to jump up now that we are heading toward the end of October. I bring this up because it is starting to look like we may have to
Weather

Possible Change In Weather Pattern

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I’m going to start off this week’s article with a quick look at global weather records and patterns so far this year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the first nine months of 2010 have been the warmest ever recorded. If this pattern keeps up, 2010 will go down as the warmest
Livestock

The Pas Incinerator Supported

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Berscheid Meats of The Pas is receiving more than $360,000 for the purchase and installation of an incinerator and handling equipment for the disposal of specified risk material (SRM) both from its own slaughter facilities and from nearby communities. Federal and provincial officials made the announcement Oct. 8. The new equipment, which operates at temperatures
Weather

Cold, Snowy Winter Or Warm And Dry – for Sep. 23, 2010

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Last issue we took a quick look at the atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon know as La Nińa, or, as we pointed out last issue, the anti-El Nińo. Now that we have a bit of an understanding of La Nińa let’s take a look back and see what kind of winters we’ve had the last few

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