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Trump to slap more tariffs on Chinese goods

By David Lawder, GFM Network News, Jeff Mason September 17, 2018

Washington | Reuters | Updated Sept. 18, 2018 — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will impose 10 per cent U.S. tariffs on about US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports, but he spared smart watches from Apple and Fitbit and other consumer products such as bicycle helmets and baby car seats. Trump, in

The Jacksons

Weather predictions and cursing smartphones

The Jacksons: From the April 23 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator

By Rollin Penner April 24, 2015

Something is wrong with this picture.” Randy Jackson shielded his eyes as a gust of wind blew dust from the truck bed into his face. The tailgate on which he and Andrew and Brady sat creaked as he shifted his weight. “It’s not normal,” he concluded. “What’s not normal?” asked Brady. “The weather,” said Randy.

Peter Gredig spoke to an audience on the  use of mobile technology in ag at the  Manitoba Ag Days held in Brandon, Man.,  last month.

Country Crossroads

Put mobile technology to use on your farm

Spend more time in the field and less time at a desk with the use of  mobile technology, Cloud computing and agriculture-geared apps

By Jennifer Paige February 6, 2015

The next time your combine is making an unfamiliar tickety tickety noise, don’t call your machinery repairman – send them a video message so they can see and hear the problem, farmers attending Ag Days in Brandon were told last month. Today’s mobile technology is a perfect fit for farmers. The ability to access business

Did you know?, News, Poultry

Alberta researchers use eggshells to build better battery

By Jennifer Blair November 14, 2013

Your morning omelette may hold the solution to your quick-dying smartphone battery. University of Alberta researchers David Mitlin and post-doctoral fellow Zhi Li have developed a fast-charging supercapacitor using eggshell membranes — a plentiful egg industry byproduct. “We sell the liquid egg whites and the yoke to food processors, and we have no use for

Livestock

CFIA beefs up food safety rules and sets minimum traceability standards

By Alex Binkley June 19, 2013

Food companies and farms selling products in other provinces or internationally will need detailed preventive control plans

Traceability will gain a more prominent place on the menu, and food companies will be required to develop preventive control plans under a new regulatory plan proposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The proposals, which follow the passage of the Safe Food for Canadians Act last fall, still have to be put into the

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Please, let’s not win again

By John Morriss June 19, 2013

Traceability is a fact of life for almost every other commodity that consumers buy; yet somehow we have not embraced traceability’s potential in the world of food. I cannot buy an iPhone that does not have complete traceability back to its basic components; yet what we put into our bodies is rarely traceable to source.

Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Use perimeter vision to make over your grocery cart

By Lorraine Stevenson March 16, 2013

What’s your route through your grocery store? If you travel its outer edges, and buy most of your groceries there, you’re going the right direction, according to dietitians who are encouraging us to shop a store’s perimeter more often during March Nutrition Month. That’s where the fresh, unprocessed foods, like raw fruit and vegetables, and

News

Expert says think of a smartphone as a computer in your coveralls

By Angela Lovell January 17, 2013

\Smartphone usage across Canada continues to rise and now has a 40 per cent share of the mobile phone market, according to a a recent Ipsos Reid poll. And farmers are just as likely as anyone to be carrying an iPhone, BlackBerry or Android as anyone else these days. But many just aren’t making full

Hogs, Opinion

“To Operate As Needed” Is Not What’s Needed

April 28, 2011

Farm groups, commodity organizations and most ag checkoffs have spent 25 years and billions of dollars refining and repeating their modern message: American agriculture is a business and farmers and ranchers are business people. In the process, cowboys became beef producers and hog farmers became pork producers and a half-million or more of each became

News

Shoppers Rate Products By IPhone

By Ron Friesen February 3, 2011

Take your iPhone into a supermarket and go up to a product on the shelf. Hold the iPhone next to the bar code on the package and take a picture. Within seconds, a colour – green, yellow or red – comes up on the screen, along with a single-digit number. The colour tells you how

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

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