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Bunge Eyes Canada After Wheat Monopoly

U.S. grain-trading giant Bunge Ltd. plans to expand its presence in Western Canada once the Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly is ended. “The most efficient system is a free market, a complete free market,” Bunge chief executive Alberto Weisser told theGlobe and Mail newspaper. The Conservative government says it will pass legislation this autumn to
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

Recipe Swap – for Jul. 28, 2011

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I brought them home as two tiny bedding plants and they didn’t look like they’d make it at first. Lo and behold, a few weeks later they’ve grown into gigantic green-armed creatures the likes of which you’d run screaming from if you met them on the beach. They are our zucchini plants, doing ever so
Cereals, Crops

First Organically Bred Wheat And Oat Lines Enter Co-Op Trials

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Oat and wheat varieties bred specifically to perform well in the low-input conditions of an organic production system are one step closer to becoming a commercial reality. Two lines of wheat and two lines of oats developed by the Organic Wheat Breeding Program, based at Carman are now entering first-year co-op testing trials towards evaluation
Cereals, Crops

CWB Ballots Must Be Postmarked By Aug. 24

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Farmers who have not yet received a ballot on the future of the CWB must apply for a ballot by August 8 if they wish to vote. “Voting packages were mailed two weeks ago, and should be in farmer mailboxes by now,” said plebiscite co-ordinator Ian Craven of MNP, a chartered accounting and business advisory
Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Jul. 28, 2011

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SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall over the past week varied from 10 to 50 mm. Good growing conditions helped crops advance and several crops have improved over the past week. Cereal crops in the Southwest Region are in the heading stage and late-seeded crops have tillered and are going into the flag-leaf stage. Late-seeded greenfeed is in
News, Pulses

Pulse Industry Innovator Honoured

Geoff Heal of Best Cooking Pulses, Inc. (BCP) was posthumously presented with the CSCA Industry Appreciation Award at the Canadian Special Crops Association Silver Jubilee Convention Gala Dinner held in Vancouver July 13. The CSCA’s Industry Appreciation Award is presented annually to an individual who has shown a significant commitment to promoting and expanding Canada’s
Opinion

Universities Flunking On Food Safety

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The remarkable success in controlling many foodborne diseases must be considered one of the great achievements of public health in the past century. Due largely to public health laws, food regulatory agencies and continuous improvement by the food industry, we have almost eradicated human disease and death from many foodborne diseases such as scarlet fever,
Opinion

Letters – for Jul. 28, 2011

The July 14 article, “Subsidies, new methods lift Zambian farm yields,” clearly positions accessing subsidies as being more important than applying the principles of conservation farming as key to increasing smallholder food production in Zambia. The experience of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank is quite different. The Canadian Foodgrains Bank supports numerous conservation farming projects where
News

Agriculture Hall Of Fame – for Jul. 28, 2011

Vernon McIntyre was born in 1919 in Neepawa, Man. and was raised in Kelwood along with his brother and sister. In 1930, the family moved to a farm near Elphinstone. Due to his father’s poor health, Vernon took over the farm duties while still in his teens. Vernon completed his schooling by correspondence. In 1950

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