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Unilever spreads business whets private-equity appetite

By GFM Network News, Pamela Barbaglia October 6, 2017

London | Reuters — Anglo-Dutch consumer group Unilever has invited private-equity bidders to submit tentative offers for its US$8 billion margarine and spreads business by a deadline of Oct. 19, two sources close to the matter told Reuters. The business includes the brands Stork and Flora, the latter of which is sold under the name

Chris Siow, a research scientist at the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine is studying the health benefits of lingonberries.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Wild or farmed? Lingonberries seek place in Manitoba agriculture

Tiny, tart and full of goodness, Manitoba’s wild lingonberries are even healthier than those grown in other areas

By Shannon VanRaes July 22, 2015

Today they belong to the category often labelled as “superfoods,” but Dave Buck has always known that lingonberries were good tasting and nutritious. “I grew up in the bush,” he said. “And I can remember when I was young, my parents would pick the berries, they’d juice them. We’d have juice at Christmas and then

Did you know?, International news

A destructive crop pest with many different names

The finding is expected to help with international biosecurity and control

By Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre November 13, 2014

A global research effort has finally resolved a major biosecurity issue: four of the world’s most destructive agricultural pests are actually one and the same. For 20 years, some of the world’s most damaging pest fruit flies have been almost impossible to distinguish from each other. The ability to identify pests is central to quarantine,

Country Crossroads

Try rosemary to boost flavour

By Julie Garden-Robinson April 9, 2013

Rosemary has been used widely in Mediterranean cuisine, but it can be added to a variety of foods, including various meats, fish, eggs, breads, soups and vegetables such as potatoes. Herbs such as rosemary add flavour without adding calories or sodium. It can be used fresh or dried, and in general, use about one-half as

Country Crossroads, Forages

Grasses in the landscape

By Lillian Deedman March 8, 2013

Grasses are invaluable in a wide diversity of designs for the garden landscape, putting on an extended winter show of various-shaped blades, once vibrant with many summer colours. Now is an ideal time to plan garden and landscaping ideas. I use graft paper to design how the garden could look in reality, as it’s much

Opinion

Purging the spurge in Manitoba

By Jonathan Kornelsen February 15, 2013

Most farmers are well aware of leafy spurge. This invasive perennial plant was accidentally introduced to North America in the early 1800s. Today, according to the 2010 leafy spurge Economic Impact Assessment (www.leafyspurge.ca) this invasive plant costs the Manitoba economy over $40 million a year with over 1.2 million acres infested. The Stanley Soil Management

Opinion

Looking for that amazing tree

By Red River Basin Commission July 12, 2012

In these first days and weeks of summer here in the Red River corridor, our basin’s trees are fully decked out in their leafy finery. Not only do they protect living areas, fragile lands and riverbanks, but they provide glorious scenes for our winter-weary eyes. But how often do we take these grand living structures

Livestock, News

Spurge-eating beetles may turn the tide in war on invasive weed

By Lorraine Stevenson June 16, 2012

They’re slow workers, but spurge-eating beetles can have a big impact on infested pastures and hay land

Having found a beetle with a taste for leafy spurge, researchers are now trying to figure out how to get the insects to gobble up more of the noxious, invasive weed. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researchers from Brandon Research Centre are in the final year of a three-year study of beetles chowing down on leafy

Cereals, Crops

Mexico Closes Border To Canadian Seed

By Ron Friesen June 30, 2011

Canada’s canary seed growers are asking Ottawa to intervene in a trade dispute which has shut them out of their largest export market. Mexico has resumed an import ban on canary seed from Canada one year after first imposing it, despite an interim agreement between the two countries to restore normal trade. The Canadian Special

Country Crossroads

Fiddleheads — Free For The Picking

May 5, 2011

Some people are unapologetic foragers. They are morel hunters, berry pickers and hazelnut gatherers. Along with morels, fiddleheads are one of the most popular wild delicacies of spring, and like morel hunters, fiddlehead foragers are very secretive about their harvesting locations. Fiddleheads are the coiled, immature fronds of the ostrich fern. They acquired their name

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

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Unilever spreads business whets private-equity appetite

Wild or farmed? Lingonberries seek place in Manitoba agriculture

A destructive crop pest with many different names

Try rosemary to boost flavour

Grasses in the landscape

Purging the spurge in Manitoba

Looking for that amazing tree

Spurge-eating beetles may turn the tide in war on invasive weed

Mexico Closes Border To Canadian Seed

Fiddleheads — Free For The Picking

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