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Over time, some of the links will have lapsed, so we cannot guarantee they all work. Please note that you can download our Media Database (Excel Worksheet) which contains a full description of most articles and allows searching by subject, date, source, etc. We can also provide hard copies of some items. Please contact us for further information. Harvest may stay on hold till spring Saskatoon Newsroom | by Karne Morrison & D'Arce McMillan | October 28, 2004 Prospects are poor for farmers hoping to take off the last 10 percent of the prairie crop, says a Canadian Wheat Board official. Bruce Burnett, the board's director of weather and crop surveillance, said about five to 10 percent of cereals remain on the ground, with large quantities of flax also sitting in snow or water. Specialty canola not as resistant to frost damage Saskatoon Newsroom | by Sean Pratt | October 28, 2004 A highly touted specialty canola that has been promoted as a healthy solution to the trans-fatty acid problem is giving growers heart palpitations. Producers are reporting high counts of green seed in samples taken from their Naxera canola fields. Old crop takes to new farming style Regina bureau | by Karen Briere | October 28, 2004 LEAMINGTON, Ont. - The clusters of tomatoes lying in boxes look like they were plucked from someone's backyard garden, but Ed Verbeke's plants are not garden variety. Stretching three metres toward the greenhouse roof, the stalks are staked and tied to support the heavy bunches of fruit that will be packed and sold as tomatoes on the vine. Crusher to Reopen Brandon bureau | by Ian Bell | October 28, 2004 A Canola crush plant in Manitoba that sat idle for years will soon be brought back into production. The plant at Ste. Agathe was completed in 1997 but never reached full capacity before its owner at the time, Canadian Agra, was forced into receivership. Calif. rain contributes to tomato shortage Associated Press | by Daisy Nguyen | October 27, 2004 LOS ANGELES -- A nationwide tomato shortage brought on by Florida's rash of hurricanes and a nagging pest in Mexico is being made worse by a bruise and rotting harvest in California. Two to three inches of rain have brought picking to a standstill for more than a week, dropping production by nearly 40 percent for the normally busy October. Global warming effects faster than feared - experts Planet Ark | Maggie Fox | October 25, 2004 WASHINGTON - Recent storms, droughts and heat waves are probably being caused by global warming, which means the effects of climate are coming faster than anyone had feared, climate experts said. The four hurricanes that bashed Florida and the Caribbean within a five-week period over the summer, intense storms over the western Pacific, heat waves that killed tens of thousands of Europeans last year and a continued drought across the U.S. southwest are only the beginning, the experts said. ANALYSIS - Global warming seen as security threat Planet Ark | October 25, 2004 JOHANNESBURG - Rising sea levels force millions of Bangladeshis into India, fueling ethnic and religious tensions that end in bloody riots. In Africa, crops wither in the parched landscape of a once-lush nation, bringing strife to the countryside and leading city dwellers to clash with the army as they loot shops for food. N.B. potato farmers face losses of millions due to poor weather The Evening News (New Glasgow) | October 21, 2004 About a dozen New Brunswick potato farmers are facing millions of dollars in losses due to last summer's wet weather and a warm autumn. Potatoes New Brunswick executive director Patton MacDonald said pink rot, which had affected 10 to 15 farms this year, might lead some farmers to leave the business. Organic crop results vary across Sask. Saskatoon Newsroom | by Sean Pratt | October 20, 2004 Ask a couple of Saskatchewan organic farmers how their harvest went and you'll get a starkly contrasting answers depending on where they live. A jagged line stretching from Meadow Lake through Moose Jaw to Ogema demarcates where conditions went from good to bad, with crops on the west side faring far better then those on the east. Malting barley supply short Camrose bureau | by Mary MacArther | October 20, 2004 Prairie malting barley is in short supply this year due to early frost and too much rain before harvest. Jack Foster, director of barley procurement with Prairie Malt Inc., in Bigger, Sask., said supplies will be tight. Potato quality, yields good despite cool weather Brandon bureau | by Ian Bell | October 20, 2004 A quirky growing season helped and hindered potato growers this year on the eastern Prairies. Manitoba growers endured long bouts of rain and cool weather throughout much of the spring and summer. Peace harvest nixed by snow Saskatoon Newsroom | by Karen Morrison | October 20, 2004 The ski season came early for northern Albertans this year, with many crops in the Peace region sitting under a heavy blanket of snow. Mel and Troy Venning of Fairview had 900 aces of unharvested barley, canola and peas beneath the 15 centimeters of snow received by Oct.18. Nasty ergot hits Prairies Saskatoon Newsroom | by Karen Morrison | October 20, 2004 Moisture was a welcome visitor on the parched Prairies this year but it brought along unwelcome problems. Ergot infestations are up in crops around Edmonton, one of the wettest regions, said Kevin Sich, general manager with Louis Dreyfus Canada Ltd. in Joffee, Alta. Australia sugar-drought takes gloss off crop gains Reuters | by Michael Byrnes | October 19, 2004 SYDNEY - Drought has wiped out a million tonnes of sugar cane from Australia's crop this year but the country will still manage gains to take advantage of rising world prices, an industry leader told Reuters on Tuesday. Australia's hard-hit sugar industry is receiving its first glimpse of better times in six year after a 50 percent surge in the international price since February. Egyptian scientists produce drought-tolerant GM wheat SciDev.Net | by Wagdy Sawahel | October 14, 2004 Scientists in Egypt have produced drought-tolerant wheat by transferring a gene from barley into a local wheat variety. The researchers, at Cairo's Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), say their technique reduces the number of irrigations needed from eight to one, and that the wheat could be cultivated rainfall alone in some desert areas. Canola's big rebound Saskatoon Newsroom | by Sean Pratt | October 13, 2004 It turns out reports of canola's death were greatly exaggerated. Industry analysts thought the oilseed had been irreparably damaged by an Aub.20 frost that struck much of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Bringing plants back into the cold Reuters | by A. Bressan, Jianhua, Paul M. Hasegawa | October 11, 2004 The genetic basis for plant cold tolerance, that is, which genes are needed to convey cold tolerance to plants, has been a long standing goal of plants scientists. Two general molecular genetic approaches toward achieving this goal have been implemented in the past decade or two using the model plant Arabidopsis. Drought in the west linked to warmer temperatures: Historical study shows elevated aridity in periods of warming The Earth Institute at Columbia University | October 7, 2004 Severe drought in western states in recent years may be linked to climate warming trends, according to new research led by scientists from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University to be posted October 7 on Science magazine's website, www.sciencemag.org. This research was supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Researchers Improve Drought Tolerance in Plants Council for Biotechnology Information | October 4, 2004 Researchers at the University of California-Riverside have found yet another way to improve a crop's ability to survive drought, raising hope that more food can be grown in arid regions of the developing world. "This discovery will assist farmers who depend on rainwater for their crops during those years when rainfall is low... and should help farmers who grow crops in arid areas such as exists in many third-world countries," said Daniel R. Gallie, a biochemistry professor at the University of California-Riverside and an author of a scientific paper recently published in The Plant Cell. Talk of El Nino floods, Droughts worries Farmers Reuters | by Russell Blinch | October 3, 2004 SINGAPORE - After a seemingly unending string of hurricanes and typhoons, talk that the "little boy" is stirring in the Pacific is unwelcome news for weather-battered farmers. International weather forecasters are warning that the phenomenon known as El Nino could rear up over the next few months, possibly bringing a wrath of flooding in some parts of the Americas and crop-busting droughts in Southeast Asia and Australia. Hurricane Damage to Florida's Farms Put at $3 Billion Reuters | October 1, 2004 MIAMI - Damage to Florida's $62 billion agricultural sector from the worst hurricane season in decades will probably be around #3 billion when all the toppled citrus trees, shattered greenhouses and fallen fruit are counted, the state government said yesterday. The Sunshine State got battered by four hurricanes in six weeks. |
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