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Better Drainage A Paying Proposition

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Ottawa and the provincial government are missing the boat by not investing in better drainage in farm country, according to the reeve of the Rural Municipality of Dufferin. At a panel presentation on water management issues at Ag Days, Shawn McCutcheon argued a well-executed drainage strategy would generate tens of millions of dollars’ worth of
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Environment And Agriculture: Talking The Talk Or Walking The Walk

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The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Lake Winnipeg Basin Summit has come and gone, and I think most participants would agree that it was a resounding success. To quote IISD director Hank Venema, “This summit has moved us closer to a unified effort under the umbrella leadership of IISD.” The issues surrounding the degraded level
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Private Equity Sees “Buckets Of Money” In Water Buys

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Water scarcity will generate big returns for the irrigation sector once climate change and population growth take their toll on farming, private equity managers said Nov. 9. Asked at an agriculture investing conference whether it is possible to make money from water, typically a public good rather than a bankable commodity, Judson Hill of NGP
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Water Resources Shrinking: Statistics Canada – for Sep. 23, 2010

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Is Canada running short of fresh water? That’s the question raised by a new study which says renewable water resources have fallen in the southern part of the country over the past three decades. The Statistics Canada study found that the region, where 98 per cent of Canadians live, lost 8.5 per cent of its
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Less Cash Seen For EU Farms, Caps On Support Prices

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Reforms to the European Union’s farm policy from 2014 are likely to result in a smaller net budget, and must avoid protectionism or any increase in support prices, a senior European Commission farm official said. By the end of this year the EU’s executive commission will propose an overhaul of Europe’s complex common agricultural policy
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Province Softens Approach To Minor On-Farm Drainage

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“It could have been an absolute nightmare.” – IAN WISHART, KAP In Oct. 2008, a Keystone Agricultural Producers council meeting was startled to hear farmers in southwestern Manitoba were getting letters from the province saying they would need licences to drain water from their land. The reason was Section 3(1) (c) of The Water Rights
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Multi-Purpose Flood Protection: A Rural-Urban Win-Win

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We ignore the lessons of the 2009 Red River flood at our peril. It reveals another reason why urban taxpayers should take an interest in what happens on the rural landscape. Well-managed agriculture can help keep basements dry, tax bills lower and give us an edge in adapting to climate change. Agricultural water management has
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Water — Our Valuable Resource

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In North America, most of us take one thing for granted – water! I am not an environmentalist, reminding you of the importance of conservation, although I know it is an important issue. However, we don’t have to go long without water to realize how precious it is in our daily lives. Living on a
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Remote Monitoring A Keystroke Away

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When Bruce Shewfelt was looking for examples of remote irrigation monitoring one Saturday afternoon, all he had to do was log on to the Internet from his Morden office. The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration consultant was almost immediately downloading information on reservoir levels, downstream flows below the reservoir and current use rates – from an
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Iraq To Revive Dead Farmland By Sucking Out Salt

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Iraq started flushing excess salinity out of millions of acres of land Dec. 1 in a project aimed at cleansing rivers, breathing new life into dying soils and reviving what was once part of “the fertile crescent.” Though Iraq is wetter and more arable than many of its desert-covered neighbours, centuries of irrigation and overuse

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