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Rolling research shows promise

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“These observations suggest that the roller is a legitimate tool for organic farmers and it will even allow them to completely eliminate tillage in some years.” – MARTIN ENTZ Organic farmers might do well to invest in a roller for help in reducing weed pressure. An experiment in its second year at the Ian N.
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Biofuel industry growing internationally

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Despite the controversy over crop production for food versus fuel and the shock of the financial credit squeeze, the biofuel industry is recording steady growth in many countr ies, the Canadian Renewable Fuel Summit was told in early December. But it has a long way to go before it reaches the level of global petroleum
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New biofuel sources are in the pipeline

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“We’re like the high-tech sector. The research we engage into developing a fuel will likely lead to other new products.” While many are still under development, new sources of raw material for biofuels will take the sting out of any future debates over food-versus-fuel uses for crops, experts say. Earlier this year, environmentalists and poverty
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Wasteful water use challenged

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“Canada is the only country I know of that hasn’t banned 13-litre flush toilets.” – DAVID BROOKS David Brooks wants us to stop flushing good drinking water down the toilet. The keynote speaker, at the Manitoba Conservation District Association conference talked at length about water conservation and following soft paths for water use. Brooks serves
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Wetlands to return

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“The thrust of this program is to help Manitoba reach its targets for GHG reduction.” – Rhonda McDougal Expect to see more wetlands in Manitoba farm fields over the next four years. The Manitoba government rolled out its Wetland Restoration Incentive Program providing financial incentives to landowners to restore wetlands on their land. The program
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Forages can help an organic transition

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Seeking advice, maintaining a never-ending thirst for knowledge, and dealing with Mother Nature are all key to success as an organic farmer. These were some of the tips that Marc Boulanger offered during this year’s Manitoba Grazing School held in Brandon Nov. 25 and 26, when he hosted an entertaining workshop on “Transitioning to Organics.”
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UN calls food summit in 2009, hopes for fair trade

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The world should hold a food summit in the first half of next year to seek fairer trade and help farmers in poor countries make a decent living, the head of the United Nations food agency said Nov. 19. Jacques Diouf, head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said the summit would seek to
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Hunger still bites in land of plenty

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Some 36.2 million Americans struggle to get enough food to eat and one-third of them go hungry from time to time, according to a government survey taken before this year’s economic downturn. Anti-hunger groups said hunger has worsened since the government’s survey of 45,600 households at the end of 2007. They want Congress to increase
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Energizing small communities

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District energy projects bring more than heat to communities. Carl Chaboyer has spent years working with district energy projects and says the benefits outweigh any possible deterrents, including fiscal. Speaking to the Biofibe 08 conference held in Winnipeg, Nov. 14, 2008, Chaboyer said it is debatable whether the projects he worked with were actually the
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“Organic province” possible, not probable

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Should Manitoba become an organic province? A farmer complaining about tight pesticide restrictions mused about how this could be coming. While he was speaking in jest, he might find support for the move. At the Organic Producers Association of Manitoba (OPAM) fall seminar here Nov. 15, provincial organic specialist John Hollinger announced a small program

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