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Aphid season around the corner for growers
Growers can no longer afford to treat soybean aphids as an "every other year" phenomenon, since there are regions with localized outbreaks that can challenge growers every year -even in Ontario and Manitoba. This particular report comes from Dr. Kevin Steffey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Montana-based company closes camelina contracting season
In the wake of a successful test-flight of a Japanese Airlines jet using camelina-based fuel last January, Sustainable Oils announced today it has closed its contracts for camelina, with growers across the southern Prairies signing up.
Conditions combine to create fear on water issues
As a follow-up to weather forecasts and impacts on wheat growers, this week's Monday Morning Memo contains a short, cautionary word from Red Williams, on a commodity that receives less media clamour than climate change, food shortages or economic collapse: a growing shortage of potable water.
USDA weekly ag weather forecast calling for cooler weather in wheat regions
Weather prognostications that may be of interest to Western Canadian wheat growers are calling for cooler conditions in the wheat-growing regions of the US Plains region, and on a lesser note, across the US Midwest, which may interest growers in Eastern Canada, as well.
Japan ending monitoring of some biotech events
In a move that has the support of the United States Grains Council, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) announced recently that it will discontinue tests for two biotech events, which is certain to draw further praise from other biotech innovators.
Manitoba farmers turn in more than 51,000 kilos of pesticides
Another sign that Canada's farm producers are operating in a responsible manner comes in this announcement from CropLife Canada, detailing the safe disposal of pesticides in the fall of 2008 in Manitoba.
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