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New Market For Hemp Straw, Fibre

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“What I found surprised me. Canada had little hemp-fibre processing capacity.” – ROBERT JIN Plans to build the first hemp fibre-processing plant in North America were announced at a press conference in Gilbert Plains April 6. Work on the $10-million facility, to be built by Plains Industrial Hemp Processing Ltd., will start this summer, according
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Merial, Intervet To Merge:

continued from previous story Grain-based deicer in works: Ontario-based biofuel maker GreenField Ethanol has signed on for a joint venture to make road and runway deicer from grain-based glucose. The company has a partnership agreement with New Jerseybased DNP Green Technology for a $50-million refinery to make bio-based succinic acid, which makes a “less corrosive”
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

States’ Soggy Spring Supportive

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For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca ICE Futures Canada’s canola futures bounced around during the week ended March 19, setting fresh contract lows in the nearby months before eventually recovering to post modest advances in the most actively traded nearby contracts. However, the new crop months
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Manitoba Organic Alliance Pitches “Unified” Voice

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brandon If conventional farmers have Keystone Agricultural Producers lobbying on their behalf, who speaks for organic producers in Manitoba? According to Priscilla Reimer, chair of the Manitoba Organic Alliance, strong producer support for MOA could create a representative, democratically elected, unified voice for the province’s growing organic sector. “MOA is to the entire organic sector
Crops, Opinion

Diversification may be bland, but it works

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Canada West Foundation estimates that Manitoba’s real GDP edged up 0.1 per cent in 2009, and forecasts that it will grow 1.9 per cent in 2010. Excerpted from “Avoiding Recession Contagion: Manitoba Economic Profile and Forecast” published last month. The full report can be viewed at: http://www.cwf.ca. Just as the careful approach followed by Canada’s
Crops, Oilseeds

Shape Foods Back With Skeleton Crew

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“We’re just in the process of getting some product put out in the marketplace.” – Jim Downey Brandon’s Shape Foods’ cash flow arteries may have clogged in the fall of 2008, but the company is now back on the road to health, according to its CEO. The $30-million flax-crushing plant built in 2006 on the
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BRM Programs Don’t Help Enough Farmers, Crews Tells Minister

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The concern is with power companies setting up on land and trying to claim they’re a farm. Bette Jean Crews, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, isn’t buying an attempt by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to buff the image of government supports for struggling farmers. Answering questions after a chatty address to the annual
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Being Good Neighbours

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H ow are you? Try counting sometime how often in a day you exchange that greeting with family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. And then think about how often you listen – really listen – to the answer. If Gerry Friesen is right, and we suspect he is, there’s more than a few of us living
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Feb. 4, 2010

Government argument insulting I spent Wednesday, Jan. 20 sitting in Federal Court in Winnipeg as a farmer-applicant on behalf of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board. Our case is about the voter manipulation by the federal government in 2008 in our farmer-funded Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director elections. Instead of using the majority of
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Economic Downturn Threatens Future For ALUS

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“We know that we’re going to be dealing with tough economic times.” – STAN STRUTHERS Hopes for an environmental goods and services program for Manitoba farmers have been dampened by the current recession and a looming provincial deficit. The Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) program promoted by Keystone Agricultural Producers may have to wait until

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