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Quality assurance through world-class research stands the test of time

April 7, 2012

By Val Ominski The bright blue paint, on the Allis Chalmers roll stands, looks conspicuously out of place among the gleaming modern metal in the pilot-scale flour mill on the 16th floor of the CGC Grain Research Lab. Miller Dave Turnock thinks they are about 80 years old and have also seen duty at the

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Boost For Wheat Research

By Laura Rance-Unger April 14, 2011

It’s nice to see headlines about the need for more investment into wheat research these days, even if some of the stories swirling around that topic are a mite confused. Last week started with news reports in mainstream dailies across Canada citing a leaked memo from the National Research Council and reporting that genetically modified

Cereals, Crops

GE Wheat Not On Research Agenda

By Alex Binkley April 14, 2011

The National Research Council is ruling out research into genetically engineered wheat as it puts the final touches to a plan to support wheat research across Canada to double yields and improve drought tolerance and disease resistance. Wheat has become the poor cousin to corn, soybeans, canola, pulses and other crops that have attracted a

Country Crossroads

The Difference One Ingredient Makes

By Lorraine Stevenson March 17, 2011

One bite of these delicious muffins and I had to know what the baker’s secret was. It was the use of pure vanilla extract, explained Maureen Penner of Carman, who’d made them. She’s used it ever since friends brought her some from California a few years ago. This piqued my interest because we’d just been

Livestock

Lab Breach Could Devastate U.S. Livestock Industry

November 25, 2010

The National Research Council is worried a new U.S. laboratory aimed at studying dangerous foreign animal diseases could spread highly contagious pathogens to American livestock. The lab, planned for Manhattan, Kansas, would be the world’s third Biosafety- Level 4 Pathogen facility able to handle large animals. The others are in Australia and at the Canadian

Crops

Harnessing Natural Alternatives To Synthetic Fertilizers

By AAFC September 30, 2010

For more than 50 years, farmers have been using synthetic fertilizers and pesticides to increase our food production, and with great success. These fertilizers, often made from fossil fuels, used to be relatively cheap and convenient. As prices increase, however, both farmers and consumers are feeling the pinch of higher costs for producing and buying

News, Oilseeds

Spinning Straw Into Fibre

By Laura Rance-Unger May 27, 2010

Greg Archibald is hoping a $1.12-million investment by two levels of government and Schweitzer-Mauduit will help flax straw “kick the habit” and get out of the smoking business for good. The vice-president for the Canadian division of Schweitzer-Mauduit International is well aware that for every tonne of flax straw he processes into fibre and shives

News

Sewage Ejector Ban Hitting Rural Pocketbooks

By Lorraine Stevenson February 18, 2010

Lowe Farm-area resident Dennis Friesen ran into a nasty new wrinkle to selling rural properties when he put his farmyard on the market last autumn. The farmer and autobody shop owner was planning to subdivide his yard from his farmland and sell it so he could move his car repair business to a better location

Daily Network News

Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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Quality assurance through world-class research stands the test of time

A Boost For Wheat Research

GE Wheat Not On Research Agenda

The Difference One Ingredient Makes

Lab Breach Could Devastate U.S. Livestock Industry

Harnessing Natural Alternatives To Synthetic Fertilizers

Spinning Straw Into Fibre

Sewage Ejector Ban Hitting Rural Pocketbooks

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