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Silent Nights, Starry Nights Uniquely Rural

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“Kids from rural areas will more likely know the skies.” – JaCQUes boUrGeois or centuries, songs, prayers and incantations surrounding the main Christian holiday have mentioned a star. What exactly was this Star of Wonder spoken of in just a few, fragmentary lines of scripture, and for which early astronomers left no record? The question
Cereals, Crops

Ug99 Stem Rust On The Move

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The question is “when” not “if ” Ug99, a potentially devastating wheat stem rust discovered in Uganda in 1999, will reach Canada, says Winnipeg-based Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada plant pathologist Tom Fetch. Eighty-five per cent of Canadian spring wheat varieties are vulnerable to this new race of fungus disease, so the longer Ug99 stays away
Opinion

Serving Agriculture, The Basic Industry

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The days of the CBC radio “Farm Broadcast” have passed into history, perhaps inevitably with the decline in farm numbers. But many still fondly remember the noon-hour market reports and general agriculture news, including city dwellers who appreciated the link to their farm cousins. (For a recent glimpse back into farm
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Powerful Legacy

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World attention was focused last week to the passing of Norman Borlaug, the American scientist known as the Father of the Green Revolution and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his efforts to end world hunger. Borlaug died at the age of 95, still passionately committed to the role science can and
Cereals, Opinion

World Loses Its Leading Hunger Fighter

CIMMYT joins with members of the international development community to mourn the passing of Nobel Peace Laureate and renowned wheat scientist, Norman E. Borlaug, who died Sept. 12 at the age of 95 from complications from cancer, after an exemplary life dedicated to fighting hunger in developing countries. Borlaug worked as a CIMMYT wheat breeder
Crops

Plant Breeder Hopes African Development Takes Root

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For Gebisa Ejeta, it was not enough that he developed new varieties of a food staple crop that resisted droughts and a devastating weed that sucked the life out of cereal crops in his native Ethiopia. Ejeta, who was awarded the 2009 World Food Prize on Thursday, was really driven to get the seeds he
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Clarification

Regarding the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) two pilot programs involving sampling grain in containers: Under the Accredited Container Sampling Program grain companies can submit an official sample from their container for official CGC inspection through a private sector inspector accredited by the CGC. Under the Certified Container Sampling Program grain companies take their own samples
Cereals, Crops

Devastating New Stem Rust Advances Beyond Africa

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“It’s probably not a matter of if but when.” –TOM FETCH, AAFC “Behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. And behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprang up after them. And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full
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Monsanto Supports Research

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“As far as we’re concerned this will be public money for public good.” – TED CROSBIE Monsanto will spend $10 million over five years through an international scholars program to educate and train new public sector scientists whose mission is to boost wheat and rice yields. The Borlaug-Beachell International Scholars Program is named after Norman
Cereals, Crops

Scientists Join In Battle To Head Off Ug99

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Amutant form of stem rust that wipes out wheat crops could spread to top producers in Asia unless new resistant varieties of wheat are distributed widely, experts say. Stem rust “annihilates, that’s not an exaggeration,” said Rick Ward, a rust expert from Cornell University. “Basically the entire world’s wheat crop is fertile breeding ground,” Ward

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