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Farmers setting up for annual exhibition - Regina Leader-Post
Regina Leader-Post
Farmers setting up for annual exhibition
Regina Leader-Post
Farmers and distributors were preparing for the Canadian Farm Progress Show (CFPS) Thursday at Evraz Place in Regina. The CFPS runs next Wednesday to Friday. The annual show attracts more than ... There are a variety of agricultural speakers scheduled ...
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Controversy over efforts to solve bee deaths - NECN
Controversy over efforts to solve bee deaths
NECN
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has contributed some of its stretched resources to tracking down the cause of the mysterious deaths, and in a report issued last month, delivered a frustratingly complex answer: Many factors may be responsible, from ...
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British authour lauds virtues of GMOs at conference - Farm Focus
Farm Focus
British authour lauds virtues of GMOs at conference
Farm Focus
“So don't get me wrong, I think organic foods are very safe indeed but GMO foods are probably slightly safer.'' Lynas quipped that a person is more likely to get injured by an asteroid strike than through eating GMO foods. The three-day international ...
Insecticides receive emergency use permits to control spotted wing drosophila - Farm Focus
Insecticides receive emergency use permits to control spotted wing drosophila
Farm Focus
Horticultural producers across Canada now have access to two important tools to protect their soft-skinned fruits against spotted wing drosophila (SWD). ... “Entrust SC is an insect control product approved for certified organic fruit and vegetable ...
What's Love Got to Do with the Apocalypse? WE ASKED THIS GROUP OF ... - MorungExpress
What's Love Got to Do with the Apocalypse? WE ASKED THIS GROUP OF ...
MorungExpress
We had 100 volunteers show up at the Free Farm to help, and since then, we've given away close to 9,000 pounds of local, organic produce. That greenhouse became one of the main providers of Occupy the Farm a year ago on land administered by the ...
Harvesting Justice 17: “The Awakening That's Happening” – Local, Sustainable ... - Sustainablog (blog)
Harvesting Justice 17: “The Awakening That's Happening” – Local, Sustainable ...
Sustainablog (blog)
A food system contributes to community sustainability if it is economically viable for small farmers; nourishing of the earth and elements; and socially equitable for all involved, including farm and food workers and consumers. Examples in ...
Living an Eco - Friendly Lifestyle On a Budget - U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
Living an Eco - Friendly Lifestyle On a Budget
U.S. News & World Report
(According to the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada, organic fruits and vegetables can cost anywhere from 10 percent to 174 percent more than conventional produce.) Grow your own food. If buying organic foods isn't financially feasible, try out your ...
Living an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle On a Budget - U.S. News & World Report
Living an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle On a Budget
U.S. News & World Report
(According to the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada, organic fruits and vegetables can cost anywhere from 10 percent to 174 percent more than conventional produce.) Grow your own food. If buying organic foods isn't financially feasible, try out your ...
Is the 2030 Goal for Hunger Eradication Realistic ? - Inter Press Service
Is the 2030 Goal for Hunger Eradication Realistic ?
Inter Press Service
Dr. Joan Russow of the Canada-based Global Compliance Research Project told IPS one of the reasons for the failure of the MDG1 might have been because the urgency was not effectively communicated by using the word “halving”. ... These include, at a ...
Southbrook Organic Winery At Forefront Of Eco-Friendly Deliciousness - Samaritan Mag
Southbrook Organic Winery At Forefront Of Eco-Friendly Deliciousness
Samaritan Mag
Southbrook strictly adheres to organic agriculture across its 150 acres, which uses less water, less energy, no synthetic pesticides, no chemical fertilizer, no bioengineering, and no genetic modification. It is also one of only two wineries in Canada ...
Tongan vanilla to bounce back - Islands Business
Tongan vanilla to bounce back
Islands Business
Queen's investment, significant by Tonga's vanilla industry scale, will see the development of the Queen Vanilla Curing Certification Course (QVCCC) to help grower members of the scheme develop sustainable farming practices. It will also provide ...
Has 'Local' Food Gone Too Far? - TheTyee.ca
Has 'Local' Food Gone Too Far?
TheTyee.ca
"To call provincial or western Canadian food 'local' disadvantages the most challenged sector of an already challenged agricultural economy, which is small and medium sized growers," she says. 'True local defined'. The Kootenay Co-op is the largest ...
What the Ice Is Telling Us - TakePart
TakePart
What the Ice Is Telling Us
TakePart
In May 2007, roughly a year after the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Will Steger was leading a 1,200-mile ice survey expedition across Baffin Island, in northern Canada, when he and his team encountered a tangle of snowmobile tracks in the snow. “We ...
A Modest Proposal About How To Do GMO Food Labeling Right - Science 2.0
Science 2.0
A Modest Proposal About How To Do GMO Food Labeling Right
Science 2.0
Trained as a plant pathologist (Ph.D. UC Davis 1982), I've worked now for >30 years in many aspects of agricultural technology (Colorado State... View Steve's Profile. User pic. ... It seems more likely that it is about wanting consumers to be afraid ...
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Wilkesboro Couple Turns Passion into Lucrative Success - WFDD
Wilkesboro Couple Turns Passion into Lucrative Success
WFDD
Brushy Mountain Bee Farm exports hives, clothing and equipment to bee keepers across the United States and in parts of Australia and Europe. According to Steve, the company is a success because of the ... The next market Steve and his partners want to ...
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Genesee & Wyoming's Management Presents at Deutsche Bank dbAccess ... - Seeking Alpha
Genesee & Wyoming's Management Presents at Deutsche Bank dbAccess ...
Seeking Alpha
If you don't have an excellent safety record when you go and present to a global miner, you know, you want to talk to, it's a true differentiator and is something that's the core of our business and allows us to keep continue to grow not only ...
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Hansen Protection Canada's Partner Sold in PE Deal - Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release)
Hansen Protection Canada's Partner Sold in PE Deal
Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release)
... of six helicopter sites in Norway, one in Denmark and two in Canada. Additional business activities include specialised survival suits for personal protection (immersion suits, work suits, life jackets), specialty textile products, mainly for the ...
Storefront Stunt Puts Child Labour in Public Eye of Canadians - Wall Street Journal (press release)
Storefront Stunt Puts Child Labour in Public Eye of Canadians
Wall Street Journal (press release)
115 million children worldwide are forced into "3D" - dirty, dangerous and degrading - jobs -- These jobs are in the agricultural, fishing, mining, domestic service, manufacturing sectors -- There are 1 million children globally in the mining industry ...
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TERRABIOGEN TECHNOLOGIES INC. : TerraBioGen Moves to New Research ... - 4-traders (press release)
TERRABIOGEN TECHNOLOGIES INC. : TerraBioGen Moves to New Research ...
4-traders (press release)
Vancouver, Canada, June 10, 2013 - TerraBioGen Technologies lnc., a developer of proprietary, organic based, high-value agriculturally and horticulturally bioactive products, announces that it has moved to new premises. Since inception almost 20 years ...
Storefront Stunt Puts Child Labour in Public Eye of Canadians - Wall Street Journal (press release)
Storefront Stunt Puts Child Labour in Public Eye of Canadians
Wall Street Journal (press release)
115 million children worldwide are forced into "3D" - dirty, dangerous and degrading - jobs -- These jobs are in the agricultural, fishing, mining, domestic service, manufacturing sectors -- There are 1 million children globally in the mining industry ...
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