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EDITOR’S NOTE – for Dec. 18, 2008

Merry Christmas from Country Crossroads If you have any stories, ideas, photos or a comment on what you’d like to see on these pages, send it to Country Crossroads, 1666 Dublin Ave, Winnipeg, MB. R3H 0H1, phone 1-800-782-0794,fax 204-944-5562,e-mail crossroads@ fbcpublishing.com.I’d love to hear from you. Please remember we can no longer return material, articles,
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EDITOR’S NOTE – for Dec. 11, 2008

Welcome to Country Crossroads If you have any stories, ideas, photos or a comment on what you’d like to see on these pages, send it to Country Crossroads, 1666 Dublin Ave, Winnipeg, MB. R3H 0H1, phone 1-800-782-0794,fax 204-944-5562,e-mail crossroads@ fbcpublishing.com.I’d love to hear from you. Please remember we can no longer return material, articles, poems
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Shipping in urgent London talks on credit worries

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Ship industry talks targeting counter-party credit risk were being held in London Nov. 19 in a bid to stem the slide in dry commodity freight markets and kick-start trade, organizers said. Bill Lines, spokesman for the Baltic Exchange, the world’s leading maritime marketplace, said the hastily convened talks were being held to restore confidence in
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Food traceable from farm to customer

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The province of Manitoba has been working with IBM to develop and test a new system giving digital traceability to food all the way to shoppers’ grocery carts. Referred to as a food passport, it is meant to show the public and trading partners that if there is a problem with Canadian food, it can
Country Crossroads

EDITOR’S NOTE – for Dec. 4, 2008

Welcome to Country Crossroads If you have any stories, ideas, photos or a comment on what you’d like to see on these pages, send it to Country Crossroads, 1666 Dublin Ave, Winnipeg, MB. R3H 0H1,phone 1-800-782-0794,fax 204-944-5562,e-mail [email protected]’d love to hear from you. Please remember we can no longer return material, articles, poems or pictures.
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Energizing small communities

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District energy projects bring more than heat to communities. Carl Chaboyer has spent years working with district energy projects and says the benefits outweigh any possible deterrents, including fiscal. Speaking to the Biofibe 08 conference held in Winnipeg, Nov. 14, 2008, Chaboyer said it is debatable whether the projects he worked with were actually the
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Syngenta scholars named:

Six Manitoba students are among 30 who have earned Horizon scholarships of $1,000 each from Syngenta Crop Protection Canada. Successful applicants live or work on Prairie farms, plan on post-secondary education in agriculture, business or natural science and are chosen based on academic standing, extracurricular activities and community involvement. This year’s Manitoba scholars are Angela
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Shelter belt trees salvaged for timber workshop

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Brothers Dave and Barry Pogson are building a unique workshop. Instead of a traditional stud or pole-framed building the Pogsons have erected a 20 x 28-foot structure made with stacked, dovetail cornered, 8 X 10-inch timbers. The walls have an R-value of around 16 without any additional insulation. Perhaps the most remarkable part of the
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Social marketing comes to the farm

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Ever wonder why, when you’re Googling the Internet, certain advertisements appear on the computer screen as if they’re anticipating you? It’s not an accident. Google knows which websites you visit and tailors ads according to what it thinks your interests might be. Let’s say you’re a farmer surfing the Net. You might see herbicide ads
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All I want for Christmas is a weather station

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With the snow come thoughts of Christmas, and what better way to say “I love you” than to buy that special person in your life their very own weather station? I covered this topic last year and I noticed a number of individuals out there did get a nice-shiny new weather station, so I figured

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