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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
Livestock

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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Gene Codes Cracked For Strawberries And Chocolate

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Teams of scientists have cracked the genetic codes of the wild strawberry and a certain type of cacao used to make fine chocolate, work that should help breeders develop better varieties of more mainstream crops. The wild strawberry is closely related to important food crops such as apples, peaches, pears and raspberries, as well as
Country Crossroads

Apricots Grown In Manitoba? – for Aug. 19, 2010

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Who says we can’t grow apricots in Manitoba! I say we can, and here’s proof from our very own yard this summer. Almost 40 years ago, my husband received a catalogue from Aubin’s Nursery in Carman, Manitoba. Off to Carman he went and came home with several small fruit trees, one being an apricot. They
Crops

MAFRI On Alert For Giant Hogweed – for Jul. 29, 2010

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An invasive toxic weed which recently made headlines in Ontario has not shown up in Manitoba – at least, not yet. An informal Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives survey has found no sign of giant hogweed, a plant which can damage human skin. But MAFRI will continue to keep a watchful eye out for
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Early-Spring Delicacy Rich In Nutrition Too

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“The fiddlehead’s total antioxidant activity is twice that of blueberries.” – DR. JOHN DELONG Fiddlehead greens, the young, tightly curled fronds of the indigenous wild ostrich fern (Matteucia struthiopteris), are a delectable spring vegetable and rite of the season. Fiddleheads as a food source have been well known to Canada’s First Nations for many years.
Crops, Pulses

New Energy Economics: Field Peas As An Ethanol Feedstock

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Corn has become the mainstay of ethanol production. However, many firms are investigating new feedstocks, such as switchgrass, forest products and algae, to produce cellulosic biofuels that meet pending federal and state regulations. Biofuel production from most of these alternative feedstocks has not been commercialized as yet. Moreover, numerous agronomic and environmental challenges also exist,

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