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McCain Honours Champion Growers

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Anton Wiebe Ltd. was named the 2010 McCain Champion Potato Grower for the McCain Portage la Prairie plant during the annual growers’ banquet held Oct. 19. Potatoes are rated throughout the year on a variety of factors including size, gravity, defect level and colour and awarded points accordingly. At the end of each crop year,
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Thoughts On Thanksgiving

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The farmer gets out of bed early in the morning and checks the thermometer. There is no frost, the sky is blue and the sun is rising. It promises a bright, sunny day. Will he be able to get on to the field and rescue the wheat that was laying in the water yesterday? Is
Cereals, Forages, News

U. S. Supreme Court Hears GM Alfalfa Arguments

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WASHINGTON, D. C. The U. S. Supreme Court was asked last week to rule on whether the courts have the authority to block genetically modified crops due to environmental concerns. The case involving Monsanto’s genetically modified Roundup Ready alfalfa heard here April 27 marks the first time the controversies over commercializing new technology have reached
News, Oilseeds

Ice Slows Grain Traffic On U. S. Midwest Rivers

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Acold snap increased ice on some key U. S. Midwest rivers last week and slowed the movement of barges carrying corn and soybeans from the heartland to the U. S. Gulf, the top export point for agricultural goods. Frigid weather in the forecast through the end of the week was expected to increase ice buildup
Dairy cattle, Livestock

U. S. Lawmakers Agree Dairy Aid

House and Senate negotiators agreed on $350 million in U. S. aid to dairy farmers who face the lowest farm gate milk price in decades, a key senator announced on Sept. 30. Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl said $60 million would be used to purchase dairy products for use in U. S. public nutrition programs and
Opinion

Sleeping With The Fishes

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If mega-biz is to be believed, the new antitrust chief in the Obama Department of Justice, Christine A. Varney, is really a hurricane whose chief ambition is to demolish the very foundations of modern American business. If the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, Varney’s first public comments on antitrust, offered in her May
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Schwarzenegger Lobbies For Water

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has demanded that President Barack Obama’s cabinet rethink federal policy that would divert water from parched farms and cities to threatened fish, his administration said. California’s rivers used to brim with salmon and sturgeon, but a massive system of canals diverted water that fed farms and cities, now suffering through a
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U. S. Senate Panel Rejects $250,000 Farm Subsidy Cap

The Senate Budget Committee rejected a proposed $250,000-a-year limit on farm subsidies March 26 in a rebuff to reformers and the Obama administration. President Barack Obama proposed a $250,000 payment cap in his fiscal 2010 budget plan. It was part of a package of farm cuts estimated to save nearly $16 billion over 10 years
Opinion

Aggies To Obama: No!

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“…if your local butcher put his greasy thumb on the scale in such a clumsy manner, you’d slap him with your chequebook. Congress does it, however, and you hand it your chequebook.” Of the many talents Americans– and especially American politicians – have acquired in the last 25 years, coupling fact with fiction to create
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Obama Faces Democrat Discord On Spending Plans

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Republicans are not the only ones in the U. S. Congress squawking about President Barack Obama’s record $3.55 trillion budget plan. Some of the president’s fellow top Democrats also are upset with certain provisions – including ones dealing with farm subsidies, tax deductions and industrial emissions. Opposition from Democrats and Republicans is likely to grab

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