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McDonald’s May Reduce Potato Pesticides

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“We just hope there are people who understand all aspects of it.” – GARY SLOIK, KEYSTONE POTATO PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION Amove by the fast-food restaurant company McDonald’s to reduce pesticide use on potatoes for french fries could have serious implications for Manitoba potato growers. Potatoes are such a high-demand crop for pesticides that reducing their use
Crops

Manitoba Farmers Turn In Obsolete Pesticides

Aprogram to collect unwanted or obsolete pesticide last fall in Manitoba collected more than 51,158 kilograms of product – enough to fill approximately four semi-trailers, CropLife Canada says. Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Agriculture Sustainability Initiative Fund and Manitoba Conservation’s Sustainable Development Innovations Fund partnered with CropLife Canada to finance the Manitoba collection, with
Oilseeds, Opinion

Letters – for Mar. 5, 2009

Where’s the beef… plan? The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is very good at name-calling, but sadly lacking when it comes to laying out a coherent plan for increasing the money that farmers and ranchers are receiving for cattle sales. The CCA affiliates in each province except Alberta collect a checkoff of $2 per head for
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Beekeepers Urge Restraint When Spraying Sunflowers

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Manitoba honey producers have launched an awareness campaign to protect their bees from friendly fire coming off sunflower fields. The Manitoba Beekeepers Association is asking sunflower growers to use only certain insecticides when spraying for insect pests so as to avoid harming foraging honeybees. A resolution adopted by the MBA at its annual meeting last
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Ontario law threatens farm pesticides

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Ontario’s “arbitrary” ban on ‘cosmetic’ pesti -cides threatens their use in agriculture and that’s why CropLife Canada is fighting back. “This is about more than just dandelions,” CropLife president Lorne Hepworth warned the 350 people attending CropLife’s annual meeting here Dec. 3. “It’s about agriculture and the not-so-subtle impact this has on the impressions Canadians
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Cancer conference explores risks from pesticides

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Does eating foods produced with agricultural pesticides give people cancer? That was one of the questions on surgical oncologist Carman Giacomantonio’s mind when he travelled from Nova Scotia last week to attend the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) conference titled Exploring the Link Between Pesticides and Cancer. Giacomantonio, who also sits on the cancer society’s board,
Opinion

Cancer, pesticides and posturing

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If you went to Toronto expecting to get a clear, unequivocal answer on the issue of whether pesticides used in agricultural production can be linked to cancer, you might as well have saved yourself the disappointment and gone to the Royal Winter Fair instead. As tempting as that was, it was a worthwhile exercise sitting
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Farm groups want a voice at pesticide meeting

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“Farmers are a lot more conscious of the impact of pesticides and the need to apply them properly.” Some farm groups want to be sure delegates to a Canadian Cancer Society conference on agricultural pesticides get the farmers’ side of the story. “We want to ensure the voice of producers is heard on the need
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Dow seeks arbitration in pesticide bans

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A pesticide manufacturer has pushed back against the provincial bans on so-called cosmetic pesticides. Dow AgroSciences has filed a notice with the Canadian government seeking arbitration on the impact of a pesticide ban imposed by Quebec in 2006. That action breached Canada’s obligations under NAFTA, the company says. Through the Chapter 11 investor protector provisions

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