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Ontario power utilities offer farm water pump rebate

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Ontario farmers buying certain types of high-efficiency water pumping systems for irrigation, horticulture or stock watering could now be up for rebates. Hydro One and Niagara Peninsula Energy (NPEI) on Friday announced the AgriPump rebate program, which the two electricity utilities described as the first plan of its kind in the province. For farmer customers
AAFC researchers are examining 341 two-row barley genotypes for their potential of handling waterlogging stress in Manitoba growing conditions.
Cereals, Crops

Waterlogging stress can take a bite out of barley

Researchers at the Brandon Research and Development Centre are screening 
341 two-row barley genotypes for their potential of coping with waterlogging stress

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Don’t get barley’s feet cold and wet — you won’t like the results. A spate of recent wet years and the crop’s known dislike for these conditions has a research scientist from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada looking at excess moisture and the crop. “Barley is known to have cold feet and to be susceptible to
A young commercial date palm planting in California’s Coachella Valley. (RF Lee photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Weather

California rules led to near 25 per cent cut in water use

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Sacramento | Reuters –– Residents and businesses in drought-stricken California cut back water use by nearly 25 per cent from June 2015 through the end of February 2016 — enough to supply nearly six million people for a year, officials said Monday. The state’s first ever mandatory cutbacks in water use were imposed by Democratic
The receding waterline of Lake Hodges is seen in San Diego County Jan. 17, 2014, when California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency.
Comment, Crops

Considering the true cost of agricultural production systems

Externalizing the cost of production is becoming less acceptable to society

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California is in the midst of a multi-year drought that has reduced the snowpack and rains that fill the reservoirs and irrigation canals that provide water for the cities of the state as well as agricultural production. The result is lower allocations and higher prices for all water users including agriculture. Some farmers have responded
Members of the Sirba Abay irrigation users’ group gather in the shade of their new farmers’ training centre to discuss how irrigation has improved their incomes and nutrition.
Crops, International news

Irrigation project means year-round food, and more

A Canadian government-supported project has led to 
impressive gains in yields, and in health of the local population

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Vegetables were once a rarity in this community located three hours northeast of Asosa in the remote Benishangul-Gumuz region of Western Ethiopia. If onions, potatoes and tomatoes were available at all, they had travelled a long distance and been on at least three trucks. They were expensive, often prohibitively so, and poor quality. Two of
Irrigation on a farm in Ethiopia
Crops, International news

Delivering the water of life

Cash crops often replace food crops in farming

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It was almost 30 years ago, but the engineer who brought water to Bila remembers well the people’s plight prior to irrigation. Many were refugees who had been repatriated after the Ethiopia-Somalian war. They were given a piece of canvas for shelter, a shovel, pickaxe, a goat and a cart — and told to start over.
A woman sells chat in the village market in Bila.
Crops

The gift of water 28 years later

Bila farmers are producing wealth thanks to small-scale irrigation, but who is reaping the rewards?

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The old man’s eyes grew teary when he was asked to remember what it was like before the water came. “There was a drought,” Ahmed Sahle Ahmed said through an interpreter as he sat on a floor mat in the family’s home. “We were having problems, we had no food.” That was in the early

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