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Canada Is Exporting Fresh Water In Commodities

By Alex Binkley June 9, 2011

Canada is giving away massive amounts of fresh water in the form of exported grain, meat and food products as well as other commodities, the Council of Canadians says in a report. It says the agriculture industry accounts for 70 per cent of the water shipped from the country. It calls the moisture content of

Crops

Companies Chip In For CFGB Growing Projects

May 26, 2011

To be successful, Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) growing projects require land, people, time and energy. The fundraising efforts also need inputs like seed, fertilizer and other chemicals – products generously provided by some of Canada’s leading agro-sciences corporations. This year over $220,000 of inputs have been donated through CFGB to growing projects across Canada by

Opinion

Bipole III Route Must Change

By Doug Chorney May 19, 2011

Farmers will be directly affected by the construction of the Bipole III power transmission line and Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) continues to lobby the Government of Manitoba to abandon the plan to develop the west-side route. KAP is opposed to the west-side route because it is not the right way to proceed for farmers and

Cereals, Opinion

Glencore: One Of The World’s Largest Private Companies, Goes Public

By John Morriss May 12, 2011

With the end of the Canadian Wheat Board now virtually certain following last week’s election of a Conservative majority, it was interesting to see that news coincide with a glimpse of a company that may soon play a bigger part in the Canadian grain-marketing future. On May 4, Swiss-based Glencore, sometimes described as “the biggest

Crops

New Questions Being Raised About Benefit Of Biofuels

May 12, 2011

Anew report raising additional doubts about the green credentials of biofuels has stalled investment in Europe and threatens the future of some producers. After a two-year investigation, the European Commission has decided that the complex issue of “indirect land use change” can lessen carbon savings from biofuels. The concept is relatively new, and still being

Livestock

BeefTalk: A Significant Storm Event

By Kris Ringwall May 12, 2011

Asignificant storm event occurred April 30 in western North Dakota. Significant storm events actually occurred in several areas of the country last week, resulting in the tragic loss of life. Our hearts go out to those who lost family and friends. As cattle producers, each brash attack from Mother Nature should cause us to ponder

News

Climate Change To Hit American West

By Deborah Zabarenko May 12, 2011

Climate change could cut water flow in some of the American West’s biggest river basins – including the Rio Grande and the Colorado – by up to 20 per cent this century, the Interior Department reported April 25. This steep drop in stream flow is projected for parts of the U.S. West that have seen

Weather

A Technical Look At Lightning

By Daniel Bezte May 12, 2011

Iknow I mentioned in my last severe weather article that I would be doing a detailed discussion about tornadoes sometime soon, but that sometime is not this week. Instead, I’ve decided to look at a particular aspect of thunderstorms that everyone has seen, can be deadly but rarely is, and is probably one of the

News

Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Coming?

By Allan Dawson April 21, 2011

The straw Red River Valley farmers burn in their fields could soon be burning in their half-ton engines instead. An official with Shell Canada confirmed the fossil fuel oil company is looking across Western Canada, including Manitoba, for a site to build a cellulosic ethanol plant with its partner Iogen Corporation. “Shell has committed to

Crops, Oilseeds

U.S. May Open To Canadian Biofuels

By Alex Binkley April 14, 2011

While it will likely be months before a decision is made, the U.S. Envi ronmental Protect ion Agency has launched a process that could open the American market to Canadian biofuels and biomass. The EPA has called for comments on a request from Ottawa to accept Canadian crops and crop residue for use in making

Daily Network News

Pulse weekly: Canadian pea/lentil exports slow to start 2025/26

Disgruntled with Western pork, China wants to go back to black pigs

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

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