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Beware of food that leaves you tingling

By Mio Coxon April 15, 2012

Reuters / With a scoop of a net Tokyo chef, Naohito Hashimoto selects a poisonous blowfish, considered a delicacy in Japan, and with a few deft strokes of his gleaming knife starts the delicate process of preparing it for a customer. In moments, Hashimoto has separated the edible parts of the fish from organs filled

Crops, News

Trials start of GM wheat that terrifies aphids

By Reuters April 7, 2012

Field trials are underway in England of a genetically modified (GM) wheat that strikes fear into aphids and attracts a deadly predator to devour them, providing an alternative to the insecticides now used to control the crop pest. The wheat emits a pheromone which aphids release when they are under attack to create panic and

News, Oilseeds

Farm leaders waiting to see how budget cuts play out

By Alex Binkley April 7, 2012

Agriculture Canada will have its $3-billion-a-year budget chopped by 10 per cent during the next few years — but details are scarce. Both the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and Grain Growers of Canada said they wouldn’t judge the budget until they learned more about how the reductions will be implemented. “Although on the surface the

Country Crossroads, News

How much do you know about digestion?

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 29, 2012

How much do you know about food and digestion? Try this quiz to find out: 1. What substance in our mouth helps mix and start the breakdown of food? 2. What action in the mouth helps break apart your food? 3. How many muscles are in the esophagus? 4. Two-part question: What part of the

Country Crossroads, News

Rossburn Elementary receives WRAPP grant

By Darrell Nesbitt March 29, 2012

An ongoing project at the Rossburn Elementary School is definitely not for the squeamish, but it plays a very important role in waste reduction. Overseen by resource teacher Iris Furman, students in each classroom take turns doing worm chores. “Composting has been an initiative of ours in the past, but thanks to a $4,293 grant

Cereals, Country Crossroads, News, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap March 29, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson March 29, 2012

Spring out of bed and eat “like a king” Even if you’re not a morning person it’s so much easier getting up with earlier sun these bright spring mornings. It’s also more tempting to skip breakfast when the weather’s fine and there’s so much to do outside. But the old saying “breakfast like a king

Country Crossroads, News

Food assessment gives St. Vital residents food for thought

By Food Matters Manitoba Release March 29, 2012

Report looks at regional challenges and offers insight Residents in St. Vital are biting off a mouthful of food issues from the recent St. Vital Community Food Assessment. The report, funded by the Winnipeg Foundation and the Province of Manitoba, was conducted by Food Matters Manitoba and its partners in St. Vital. The assessment takes

Country Crossroads, News

Plenty on the plate for food security groups

By Lorraine Stevenson March 29, 2012

Residents of Winnipeg’s St. Vital neighbourhood are digesting the results of a newly released study that reflects what matters to them about food. The Winnipeg suburb is one of several sites in Manitoba to undergo community food assessments in recent months, an initiative to better understand where residents buy or access food, if they grow

Crops, News, Oilseeds

CDC Triffid contamination on the decline

By Allan Dawson March 29, 2012

Officials from Canada’s flax industry are in Europe this week to brief government and industry officials on the progress Canada is making removing traces of CDC Triffid, a genetically modified (GM) flax, from Canadian flax. “It’s getting less and less frequent and less and less intense,” Flax Council of Canada president Will Hill said in

Cereals, Crops, News

Briefs March 29, 2012

March 29, 2012

Indonesian consumers shun rice in favour of noodles jakarta / reuters / Rising incomes are prompting Asian consumers to switch to noodles and away from rice. It’s expected wheat demand in Indonesia, already Asia’s top wheat importer, will rise by at least five per cent a year over the next decade. The country imported six

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

Tag Archives food

Beware of food that leaves you tingling

Trials start of GM wheat that terrifies aphids

Farm leaders waiting to see how budget cuts play out

How much do you know about digestion?

Rossburn Elementary receives WRAPP grant

Recipe Swap March 29, 2012

Food assessment gives St. Vital residents food for thought

Plenty on the plate for food security groups

CDC Triffid contamination on the decline

Briefs March 29, 2012

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