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Not Too Late To Plant

Where did the time go? You were so eager to get started in the garden then suddenly it’s June. That well-planned garden (painstakingly planned during the dreary winter months) was only partially accomplished. Life just kind of got in the way – graduation parties to plan, Mother’s Day, school events, soccer games, waterlogged soil. Here’s
Country Crossroads

Fiddleheads — Free For The Picking

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
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Cellulosic Ethanol Another Income Stream For Corn Farmers

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Cellulosic ethanol production using corn stover as the feedstock is going commercial, but over the short term it won’t make any more grain corn available for human or livestock use, according to Kyle Althoff. It will however, provide additional returns to farmers in the form of stover payments and potential agronomic benefits. “We don’t see
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Agronomy Growing Focus Of National Sunflower Association

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The National Sunflower Association of Canada is upping its agronomy game with the addition of a new staff agronomist. Even though Ed Stroeder, who’s based in Gladstone, is barely a month into his new job, he was front and centre this week at the Manitoba Crop Symposium. Agronomy is a challenge for the Canadian industry
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Bovine Bellies Yield Clues For New Biofuels

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Researchers looking for better ways to make biofuels turned to experts at breaking down grass – cattle – and found more than a dozen new compounds in their guts that might help make new, cheap sources of energy. They used new genetic sequencing techniques to find microbes that make enzymes that in turn can break
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Ferns — Great Addition To Indoor Landscape

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There are many fern varieties that are grown as houseplants. They come in a wide range of sizes and the foliage can vary from long, cascading fronds to tiny button-shaped leaves. Ferns are generally divided into two groups: terrestrial and epiphytic. The first group, as the name implies, grows in soil, while the second group
Crops, Oilseeds

Got Blackbirds?

The National Sunflower Association of Canada is looking for producers to fill out a survey assessing damage to their sunflower crops from blackbirds. The association is working with the Mani toba Agr icul tural Services Corporation to establish a crop insurance plan for blackbird damage in sunflower fields. “It is important that sunflower producers who
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Blue Moon Saskatoon Welcomes Guests

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Leslie and Dale Luhowy had a special treat to serve some recent visitors – freshly baked saskatoon pie made with berries from their very own orchard. The family’s saskatoon operation was a definite draw for folks participating in the province’s first Open Farm Day Sept. 19. But while they were there, visitors also learned about

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