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Beef cattle, Livestock, Oilseeds

Omega-3 Beef Trial Falls Short

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Beef researchers hoping to emulate omega-3 enriched pork, poultry and eggs by adding flax to cattle diets are finding it’s easier said than done. In order for beef marketers to slap a Health Canadaapproved label on beef touting it as a source of the “good” fat that helps prevent heart disease and stroke, the meat
Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Sep. 30, 2010

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SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall limited harvest progress over the past week but many producers were able to resume harvest operations over the weekend. Cereal harvest ranges from 35 to 60 per cent complete with more progress seen south of Highway #1. Yields are reported to be average with quality being reduced because of the wet conditions.
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Know What You Grow – for Sep. 16, 2010

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Farmers making their first deliveries to an elevator this fall will have to sign two declaration forms instead of the customary one. Since 2006, producers have had to declare that the wheat they were delivering is eligible for the class to which it’s going. Now farmers are being asked to declare the non-wheat board crops
News, Oilseeds

Flax Faces Rigorous Testing – for Sep. 16, 2010

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More rigorous testing for the presence of CDC Triffid will be required before farmers can deliver flax this crop year. Producers must send a two-kilogram representative sample to an approved laboratory (see box). The lab will then test four 60-gram samples. “All four lots must be Triffid-free for the result to be considered a negative
Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Sep. 16, 2010

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SOUTHWEST Rainfall over the past week limited harvest to only a couple of days. In most cases producers were harvesting damp to wet grain. Harvests of cereal crops vary from 70 per cent complete in the Killarney area and 40 to 50 per cent north of Souris, to less than 10 per cent harvested north
Crops, Oilseeds

Flax-Testing Protocols Tightened – for Aug. 19, 2010

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Flax delivered into the commercial grain-handling system this fall will face more rigorous and costly testing procedures to ensure it is CDC Triffid free than were in place last year, the Flax Council of Canada says. As of Sept. 1, commercial deliveries will undergo the same degree of testing for the genetically modified flax variety
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Getting A Head Start

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If you’re thinking about getting a head start on 2011 by sowing winter wheat into some of those empty fields next month, now would be a good time to pick up some flax seed. Provincial agronomists say it’s one of the best options available to farmers looking to artificially create that all-important snow-trapping stubble needed
News, Oilseeds

Spinning Straw Into Fibre

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Greg Archibald is hoping a $1.12-million investment by two levels of government and Schweitzer-Mauduit will help flax straw “kick the habit” and get out of the smoking business for good. The vice-president for the Canadian division of Schweitzer-Mauduit International is well aware that for every tonne of flax straw he processes into fibre and shives

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