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Research on getting the bitter taste out of flax oil caused researcher Martin Reaney to discover something new.
Crops, News

Bioproduct innovators adding unique value to agriculture seed stocks

Flax is one crop that’s been receiving plenty of attention from this Ontario-based effort

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Researchers and entrepreneurs are delving deeper into the natural properties of crops, as seed stocks for everything from construction resins and boards and panels for buildings and cars to concentrate health foods. Many of those projects are being funded by the BioProducts AgSci Cluster, brought together as part of BioIndustrial Innovation Canada with funding from
Humans have been farming rice far longer than originally thought.
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New origins for farmed rice discovered

The new finding helps shed light on when and why humans first became farmers

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Rice farming is a far older practice than we knew. In fact, the oldest evidence of domesticated rice has just been found in China, and it’s about 9,000 years old, about 4,000 years before the earliest previous estimates. The discovery, made by a team of archeologists that includes University of Toronto Professor Gary Crawford, sheds
Cereals, News

Harper’s involvement makes pardons partisan, critics charge

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It played well with open-market supporters and Conservatives, 
but several academics see it as an abuse of power


Pardons might be justified for some farmers who ran the border to protest the Canadian Wheat Board’s former monopoly, but several university professors say it’s wrong for the prime minister to be conferring them. “The fact that it was done by the prime minister makes it look like a party political stunt and that leaves
Cereals, Crops, News

Constitution expert likes FCWB’s chances

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There’s a good possibility that the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board will win its case, according to Peter Russell, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Toronto. “The wheat board is pretty well dismantled, but I think it (the legal challenge) has quite a chance of success,” Russell, one of Canada’s leading
Cereals, News

New twist in wheat board legal battle

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The battle over the future of the Canadian Wheat Board has moved off the farm, out of the parliamentary chambers and into the courts. Two new court actions were launched early in the new year, including a class-action lawsuit claiming $15.4 billion is owed to farmers upon the dismantling of Canadian Wheat Board assets. “The
Crops

Hemp Genome Deciphered

staff / The fine line between the stuff rope and paper are made of, and the stuff Cheech and Chong s movies are made of, has been found on the plant s genome. A team of Canadian researchers has sequenced the genome of Cannabis sativa, which, depending on the strain, is known for its industrial
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New Reporter Joins Co-Operator Staff

Today I live in Winnipeg, but my journey began in the deep south of Ontario, watching a way of agricultural life fade into the history books on my family’s tobacco farm. Growing up near Tillsonburg, I worked on tobacco, ginseng and vegetable operations before heading on to the University of Toronto. There I nurtured a
Opinion

Universities Flunking On Food Safety

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The remarkable success in controlling many foodborne diseases must be considered one of the great achievements of public health in the past century. Due largely to public health laws, food regulatory agencies and continuous improvement by the food industry, we have almost eradicated human disease and death from many foodborne diseases such as scarlet fever,
Country Crossroads

Rural Health-Care Gap Probed

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Rural residents make less use of the country’s health-care system and government policy-makers don’t really understand why, says a study done for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. “An important message for health-care policy-makers is that despite universal health insurance coverage, inequities in access to care still exist between rural and urban residents,” the study
Dairy cattle, Opinion

Food Fortification: Still Looking For The Sweet Spot

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Canada has one of the most restrictive discretionary food fortification laws in the western world. Health Canada officials spent the last 15 years trying to develop a comprehensive new policy to allow food companies greater scope for adding vitamins and minerals to their food products. But last year the health minister stopped the proposed new

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