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Fall Feast

Come the autumn, I’m a chipmunk and the neighbours think I’m nuts – jamming, jelling, freezing, storing, drying – but what’s the use of wasting time and food in vain? So I’m filling up my baskets with the “fragments that remain.” Putting up the pickles and putting down preserves I’m chattering profusely of abundance undeserved.
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

Deep-Fried Foods Can Fit In Healthy Diet

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Although people have been “trained” to think that low fat equals healthy, we actually need some oil in our diet. Oil is made up of three kinds of fatty acids. Based on their chemical structure, oils are a combination of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Our body can’t make the polyunsaturated fats found in
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African Agriculture Coming Of Age

Agrowing African food sector can yield private sector returns on the back of government support, said a report on Oct. 26, which also said that a global grain reserve may be needed to protect consumers from price spikes. Local initiatives aiming for an African equivalent of the Green Revolution, which swept developing countries in the
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Rwandan Farmers Produce Pigs With A Beat

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Edmund Ndizeye, self-styled pig DJ, stoops to adjust the amp at a farm in the wrinkled hills of northern Rwanda. The wires leading from his room feed a varied diet of hip hop, reggae, R and B, love songs and local music to his pink, curly tailed audience who, according to Ndizeye’s boss, are thriving
Opinion

Why Don’t The Chinese Eat Canadian Food?

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A big question in the news these days has been whether the Chinese will buy part or all of Saskatchewan’s PotashCorp. Underlying this is the recognition that China has a huge problem coming at it: how to feed itself. With little arable land and a growing middle class – estimated by some to be 700
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In Brief… – for Oct. 28, 2010

Honoured:Solanyl Biopolymers Inc. of Carberry was awarded Emerging Life Science Company of the Year Agribusiness by the Life Science Association of Manitoba (LSAM) at its annual dinner on Oct. 4. Solanyl manufactures starch-based biodegradable plastic resin. Founders Derek and Earl McLaren formed the company in 2005 to further process the byproduct streams of local Manitoba
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The Jacksons – for Oct. 28, 2010

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“ Idon’t know if I can take it for another year.” Rose Jackson shivered as a cold gust of wind rattled the dining room window and a low-grey cloud obscured the sun. “Already the cold is making my knees hurt,” she added. Andrew lowered his newspaper a few inches to look at his wife. “According
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Buy Manitoba Program Set To Launch In New Year

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Acampaign promot ing Manitoba food is almost ready to launch – just as soon as organizers nail down a definition of local food. “Local means different things to different people,” said Dave Shambrock, executive director of the Manitoba Food Processors Association, who has overseen the stakeholder group designing the Buy Manitoba initiative “From the food
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Manitoba Processor Uses A Direct Sales Approach

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It’s not often a commodity processor from a small southwestern Manitoba community gets to participate in an international trade forum. But Nestibo Agra does. This sunflower processor from Deloraine took part last week in Centrallia, an international business event matching sellers with potential buyers from around the world. At Centrallia, Mike Durand, Nestibo Agra’s sales
Crops

Potato Harvest On The Colony

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Trucks are waiting! Everybody welcome. Thank you!” The crisp message rings from the public address system, inviting colony members to a shift of picking weeds and lumps of dirt out of newly harvested potatoes travelling by conveyor into the shed. “This is a recorded announcement!” one of the young women deadpans. Grabbing gloves and a

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