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Home Isn’t Where The Heart Is

By Lorraine Stevenson June 9, 2011

Word the province will build 150 more housing units for Manitoba’s senior population is good news, say economic development officers who know their burgeoning numbers of 55-plus need it. But they also say 150 more homes for low-to moderate-income renters will make barely a dent in what’s become a critical housing shortage in the province.

Opinion

Ethanol And Oil Subsidies: Competing Claims And Self-Justification

By Daryll E. Ray January 27, 2011

Acommon question we hear when we tell people that we are agricultural policy analysts is “Well, whaddya think about ethanol subsidies?” That question becomes critically important as the blenders’ credit, the ethanol import tariff and the small producers’ tax credit face a deadline of December 31, 2010 for renewal by a lame-duck Congress. Todd Neeley,

News

Pipeline Offer A “Joke,” Says Melita Farmer

By Daniel Winters May 20, 2010

“We’re sick of it. We’re saying, ‘Go somewhere else. Find another route.’” – DARRYL BREEMERSCH An oil company’s plans to build a new pipeline to serve increased oil production in southwestern Manitoba is being opposed by a group of farmers along the proposed route. EOG Resources Canada, which plans to begin construction of the 104-km,

Cereals, Crops, News

U. S. Wheat Exports To Fade As Russia Flexes Muscle

By Karl Plume March 25, 2010

“(Russia is) essentially taking bushel for bushel market share away from the U. S. while we are focused on burning our food (as biofuel).” – BILL LAPP, ADVANCED ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS U. S. wheat production and slumping exports will continue to fade in coming years due to increasing competition in the global marketplace from lower-cost producers

Livestock

Alberta Organic Farm Producing 100,000 Birds Annually

By Lorraine Stevenson September 24, 2009

Why would anyone earning a good income in the Alberta oil industry quit and go farming? Ask Ron Hamilton. After 25 years as an oilfield surveyor, and without a single day’s worth of experience in agriculture, he and his wife Sheila bought a quarter section of farmland near Armena, Alberta. “We wanted to get out

News

Food, Farms The New Target For Venezuela’s Chavez

By Frank Jack Daniel March 19, 2009

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has put food and farms at the centre of his socialist revolution, tightening the government’s grip on supplies of staples in a strategy that risks sparking social unrest. Chavez nationalized a local unit of U. S. food giant Cargill on March 5 and threatened to take over the South American country’s

Field-by-field mapping could improve yield, productivity predictions

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

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Field-by-field mapping could improve yield, productivity predictions

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

Tag Archives oil industry — page 2

Home Isn’t Where The Heart Is

Ethanol And Oil Subsidies: Competing Claims And Self-Justification

Pipeline Offer A “Joke,” Says Melita Farmer

U. S. Wheat Exports To Fade As Russia Flexes Muscle

Alberta Organic Farm Producing 100,000 Birds Annually

Food, Farms The New Target For Venezuela’s Chavez

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