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The Changing Arctic –Part 3

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The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station
Weather

The Changing Arctic, Part 2

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The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station
Cereals, News

Whither The Prairie Climate?

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“The evidence is pretty clear to my mind that global warming is underway, and greenhouse gas emissions are causing some changes in the climate.” – BRUCE BURNETT, CWB Adapting to climate change will be tough, that’s for sure. It might be easier if Prairie farmers knew exactly what to plan for, but one thing is
Weather

The Changing Arctic –Part 1

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Ihinted at our next topic in the last article, and it is about the melting of the Arctic sea ice. I, along with a large number of weather scientists, agree that this is rapidly becoming the biggest weather story of our time. So I am going to take the next few articles to explore this
Crops

Buying Of Developing Countries’ Farmland Slows: UN

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“Maybe some of them don’t want to take this political risk, reputational risk and economic risk.” – JEAN-PHILIPPE AUDINET, IFAD The pace at which investors in richer countries have been buying farmland in developing nations has slowed with the fall in food prices this year from peaks hit in 2008, United Nations farming experts said
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UAE Firm Leases Farmland In Morocco

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An Abu Dhabi-based private sector investment firm has signed a contract to lease up to about 1.7 million acres of farmland in Morocco, a company executive said. Food prices have risen sharply over the past year, prompting governments and private sector firms in the Middle East to look into ways of securing supplies, as most
News

East Africa Seen Needing Billion-Dollar Food Fund

The United Nations’ emergency food aid agency needs US$1 billion to feed 20 million people in east Africa over the next six months, it said Nov. 18. Around half of that money is needed for Ethiopia alone, Ramiro Lopes da Silva, director of emergencies at the World Food Program, said on the sidelines of a
Crops

Drier-Than-Normal Spring Forecast

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Producers in the grain-growing regions of Western Canada will have lower-than-normal precipitation levels to work with this spring as they try to plant crops, according to preliminary weather projections from an industry analyst. “The short-and longer-term crop models are calling for very little precipitation ahead of the ground freezing up for the winter, very little
Opinion

Fertilizer Pricing The Last Straw For Farmers

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“Well, if they (farmers) won’t pay our prices, we’ll grow the grain in China or India.” In the late winter of 1975, our family was having lunch in a Brandon, Manitoba restaurant. At the table next to ours, three fertilizer executives (two local and one from the U. S.) were discussing product pricing and bemoaning
Crops

Radar’s Potential Studied For Gathering Crop Data

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Anew eye in the sky is being prepared for launch, and Canadian researchers will be among the first to figure out how to make it work for farmers. Ahead of the launch of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1 satellite in 2011, an international team of researchers will collect space-borne radar images throughout the 2009

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