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Palm Oil Firm Wants Industry To Postpone Proposed Planting Norms

By Fong Min Hun November 4, 2010

Malaysia’s Genting Plantations wants an industry body tasked with setting environment standards to postpone a proposed new planting policy that it says may disrupt long-term operational plans. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil – a group of planters, consumers and nongovernmental organizations – has included a new policy that requires planters to get community feedback

Crops

Western Canada’s Vegetable Oil Ontario-Bound

By Brent Harder October 28, 2010

Producers in Western Canada will once again be able to ship vegetable oil products to Ontario, after the Alberta government successfully challenged Ontario policies that restricted their sale to the province, according to a release from the Vegetable Oil Industry of Canada. The release said a panel under the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) determined

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Farmers Welcome Canola Crush Expansion

By Allan Dawson October 21, 2010

Bunge’s plan to more than double the capacity of its canola-crushing plant at Altona to 2,500 tonnes a day is good news for farmers, but it also means they’ll have to grow more canola. “We’re always glad to see investment in the canola crush because it creates demand and more demand must mean they are

Crops, Oilseeds

Dow AgroSciences Touts Profit Potential Of Nexera Hybrids

By Allan Dawson October 21, 2010

Nexera canola varieties are a good deal for farmers and will only get better, according to Dow AgroSciences. Nexera canola is known for its highly stable oil, which has a long shelf life and therefore doesn’t have to be hydrogenated, a process which creates trans fats. But the knock has always been that Nexera varieties

News

Phosphorus Depletion An Ongoing Concern

October 14, 2010

The excess moisture that has plagued Manitoba’s Interlake forced Bragi Simundsson to cut back on his organic operation last year. “If you can’t cultivate for over a year, you’re pretty much beat trying to be organic,” says Simundsson, who had as many as six quarters of his 2,000-acre mixed grain farm near Arborg certified. Organic

News, Oilseeds

Flax Faces Rigorous Testing – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Allan Dawson September 16, 2010

More rigorous testing for the presence of CDC Triffid will be required before farmers can deliver flax this crop year. Producers must send a two-kilogram representative sample to an approved laboratory (see box). The lab will then test four 60-gram samples. “All four lots must be Triffid-free for the result to be considered a negative

Beef cattle, Crops

U. S. Farmers See Red Over Proposed Dust Limits – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Alina Selyukh September 16, 2010

American farmers have been ridiculing a proposal by U. S. regulators to reduce the amount of dust floating in rural air. “If there’s ever been rural America, that’s what rural America is,” said Nebraska hog farmer Danny Kluthe. “You know? It’s dirt out here, and with dirt you’ve got dust.” The Environmental Protection Agency is

Opinion

Doing The Right Thing – for Aug. 19, 2010

By Laura Rance-Unger August 19, 2010

Governments, although they usually mean well, make mistakes. And when those errors are incorporated into policy, they can have lasting repercussions. Such was the case in the mid-1990s when the Manitoba government made the ill-fated decision to regulate manure applications to farmland on the basis of nitrogen content. The error was an honest one. The

Country Crossroads

Try Eco-Friendly Bamboo Products – for Aug. 5, 2010

August 5, 2010

Ba m b o o has now become popular in many homes. Because of its sustainability it is a great substitute for items made from less renewable resources like hardwood. Bamboo is a grass which renews itself within a five-to seven-year span, compared to hardwoods which take up to 60 years. It is a very

Country Crossroads

Summer Welding Project – for Jul. 29, 2010

By Blythe Kneeshaw July 29, 2010

Ahhh – morning coffee outside! And to set down that cup of coffee, why not pull out those old, “too good to throw out,” antique heat grates you keep storing, and weld up a lovely patio table. Table 1(top photo) This table was made of a large grate welded onto an old TV stand. The

Daily Network News

Canada must resist EU non-tariff trade barriers says Grains Council

Pulse Weekly: Spike in yellow peas slowing

Bayer to build Winnipeg canola research site

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