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Severe Weather Season About To Begin

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In trying to decide what weather tidbit we should look at this week, I hummed and hawed about the ongoing flooding, but decided the regular news is covering that topic nicely. So far this spring has been fairly uneventful, with little in the way of unusual weather. It hasn’t been overly cold and it definitely
Crops, Oilseeds

U.S. May Open To Canadian Biofuels

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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
Crops

Study Finds Biodiesel Blend Can Handle Prairie Winter

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Anew study on biodiesel performance has found you can go green – even on a frosty winter day. Tractors and other farm equipment using fuel containing as much as 10 per cent biodiesel operated normally even when the temperature dipped to -36 C, according to a study conducted by the Saskatchewan Research Council. “The study
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Biofuel Standards Will Affect Farmers

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The Renewable Fuel Standards will have an effect on farmers. The federal mandate is that there is a renewable fuel quantity that must be added to fossil fuel, for gasoline a five per cent ethanol blend will be added and for biodiesel a two per cent blend will be added to diesel. These amounts are
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Harvest Cattails To Divert Phosphorus, Says IISD

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Phosphorus in run-off water is turning Lake Winnipeg into the “most eutrophic” of all the large lakes on Earth. But on the other hand, phosphorus is a valuable nutrient that is arguably more strategically important to modern economies than crude oil. But what if the cattails in Netley Marsh were harvested and pelletized into solid
Opinion

Revenue From Wetlands

When the health of Lake Erie began to deteriorate in the 1960s, the world noticed. Its problems were visible to millions of people in two countries who live around or near that lake, and it wasn’t hard to find public support for measures to restore it to health. It’s been different for Lake Winnipeg. While
Opinion

The Food Versus Fuel Debate Continued

With all the strange and highly unpredictable events in the global economy, the tension between economics and politics in the U.S. is making things even more interesting. Consider this: a highly indebted U.S. government pays ethanol producers 45 cents for each gallon they produce, while at the same time imposing a 54-cent tariff on imports.
Beef cattle, Country Crossroads

It’s Spring… Somewhere Else!

The food magazines are filled with recipes for light salads and all things rhubarb right now, accompanied by stories of newly green backyard gardens and the joy of seasonal eating. Sigh! Evidently, they don’t live around here. Last time I checked, the yard was a vast stretch of mud, winter’s mess of strewn branches and
Weather

When Should We Expect The Snow To Melt? – for Mar. 31, 2011

The quest ion of when spring is supposed to start seems to crop up in agricultural Manitoba every time we still have a good covering of snow on the ground and it’s getting late into March. This year is no exception. A few years ago I looked into this question, and with what appeared to
Crops

4-H Reports – for Mar. 31, 2011

TheCo-operatorwill publish 4-H reports once a month. Reports can be submitted by the third week of the month by email to news@fbcpub lishing.com, by regular mail to 4-H Reports, c/oManitoba Co-operator,1666 Dublin Ave., Winnipeg, Man. R3H 0H1 or by fax to 204-954-1422. BINSCARTH HOMETTES “Fuelling the champions of tomorrow” is the purpose of “Project Pitstop,”

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