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U. K. funds non-food biofuels

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The British government and 15 businesses including Royal Dutch Shell and SABMiller have directed 27 million pounds (US$38.10 million) for research on new biofuels that do not use up food. It is Britain’s biggest ever public investment in bioenergy. The money will fund research at six centres around Britain with the goal of replacing petrol
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A – for Feb. 5, 2009

An identifying caption was not included with the photo of a sunflower bud moth larva, shown here and in the article “ Sunflowers average in 2008” (Co- operator, Jan. 15, page15) Regulations under the Canada Transportation Act require railway earnings that exceed the statutory revenue cap on grain freight must be turned over to the
Dairy cattle, News

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Europe’s farm chief will propose spending part of the unused EU agriculture budget to help countries finance rural development projects, including support for dairy industries and improved Internet access. Speaking to bloc farm ministers, EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said up to 1.5 billion euros ( US$ 2 billion) could behandedout for certain schemes
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EU executive advances on GM crops

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European Union biotech experts will get the chance in February to vote whether to allow two genetically modified (GM) maize types to be grown in Europe, in a bid to break the long-standing EU deadlock on growing GM crops. The full European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, on Jan. 21 backed proposals drafted by its
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BSE test-kit firms raided in Belgium

Belgian authorities launched dawn raids Jan. 20 on several laboratories in an investigation into alleged price fixing of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) tests. “We had some information that the prices were the same among the different laboratories, and this is the reason why we made the dawn raids,” Bert Stulens, the prosecutor general for Belgium’s
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U. K. seeks clearer food labels after pork scare

OXFORD/REUTERS Britain is pushing for clearer food labelling in the European Union following last month’s scare with dioxin-tainted Irish pork, Farm Minister Hilary Benn said Jan. 6. Benn told the annual Oxford Farming Conference that under current EU regulations, a product’s country of origin is the place where it underwent its last significant process. “A
Beef cattle, Other

Australian beef exports set record in 2008

Australian beef exports hit record levels in 2008 as sales to emerging markets such as Russia offset downturns in major markets including Japan and the U. S. Australia exported 957,479 tonnes of beef in 2008, up two per cent on the previous year and surpassing the previous record of 953,932 tonnes set in 2006, industry
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Financial crisis seen slowing EU biofuels growth

The sharp drop in crude oil prices and the global financial crisis is set to disrupt the development of biofuels in the European Union, a top European Commission official said Jan. 6. “The path will be a bit chaotic. I don’t see a taking off in biofuels in 2009, 2010 but probably later because we
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Fresh ideas for rejuvenating country fairs

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“Our last two generations have forgotten how to cook, how to garden, how to sew, how to can.” – Doris Fletcher The volunteers who log countless hours organizing community fairs should not lose sight of why they got involved in the first place, community development expert and motivational speaker Paul Born says. “Caring is the
Beef cattle, Other

WTO case over hormones in beef drags on

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The trade dispute that Reuters describes as having “stretched World Trade Organization jurisprudence to the limits” stretched even further last month over a block on Canadian and U. S. beef by the European Union. The EU on Dec. 22 announced yet another request for “consultations” at the WTO with Canada and the U. S., which

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