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It's a quandary of food production: The same drive for efficiency that lowers the cost of eating also can damage our soil and water. Take the case of one simple, essential chemical element: phosphorus...
Read MoreSource: allNovaScotia.com
A Bible Hill feed and biofuel outfit is partnering with Dalhousie University’s Agricultural Campus, trying to bring portable biofuel plants to farms in the developing world... (read more)
Source: Reuters
The U.S. beef industry’s dependence on the muscle-building drug Zilmax began unraveling here, on a sweltering summer day, in the dusty cattle pens outside a Tyson Foods slaughterhouse in southeastern Washington state... (read more)
Source: The Chronicle Herald
Norway is not about to let this unprecedented opportunity pass. Neither is Scotland, Chile, New Zealand or Australia. Canada? I hope not. What opportunity? The unparalleled one for Canada to help feed the world and create economic growth in our coastal communities, especially in Atlantic Canada... (read more)
Sourec: NSFA
Peter Rideout has officially begun his duties as Executive Director of the Wild Blueberry Producers Association of Nova Scotia this week... (read more)
Source: The Chronicle Herald
Mike Magnus says his latest business venture will revolutionize the global seafood industry. “It’s the new paradigm when it comes to seafood,” he said in an interview Friday from his Bedford office. Magnus is a partner as well as president and CEO of Open Blue Global Services (Canada) Inc... (read more)
As a result of the response from farmers who have participated in the Workplace Education Courses, the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture is planning to offer additional sessions aimed at assisting farmers to improve their farm management capabilities. These courses are for 40 hours in total that is completed over 8-13 weeks. The following locations are expected to be hosting courses which will ... (read more)
Source: Canadian Biotechnology Action Network
The recent discovery of contamination from unapproved GM wheat in the U.S. clearly shows why stopping the introduction of GM crops, such as GM alfalfa, is the only way to stop contamination. The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network has uncovered that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has recently approved one variety of genetically engineered alfalfa: a herbicide tolerant (Roundup Ready) alfalfa ... (read more)
Source: The Beef Site
Professor Charles Godfray, University of Oxford, set the context for the fourth Teagasc/RDS lecture by pointing to the widespread agreement that global food production will have to increase substantially in the coming years and decades in order to meet the demand of a growing global population... (read more)
Source: New York Times
The diversity of a tropical rain forest can be hard to fathom for people who have not seen one. Three acres of jungle may be home to more than 650 species of trees – more species than grow in the entire continental United States and Canada combined... (read more)
Source: The Tyee
A federal document marked “secret” obtained by Postmedia News indicates the closure or destruction of more than half a dozen world famous science libraries has little if anything to do with digitizing books as claimed by the Harper government. (read more)
Source: NAFDMA
The North American Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association (NAFDMA) conference is being held in late January 2014, in Kansas City. (read more)
Source: Viridis Energy
Christopher Robertson, CEO of Viridis (formerly MacTara) commented, “We anticipate a profitable growth year in 2014 with revenues from production alone more than doubling to over $30million, as we realize the full year production... (read more)
Source: DFNS
Dairy Farmers of Nova Scotia Annual General Meeting, will be held January 15-16, 2014, at the Best Western Glengarry, Truro. (read more)
Source: NSFA
Representatives from the Nova Scotia Farm Loan Board met with the Federation to talk about the FarmNEXT program. FarmNEXT is administered by the Nova Scotia Farm Loan Board to encourage new farmers to begin farming in Nova Scotia. If you're ready to start a commercial farming venture (with minimum annual sales of $10,000)... (read more)
Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
The 2014 AgriStability Interim Application is now available in the Forms section of the AgriStability website or by calling our toll-free line at 1-866-367-8506. AgriStability is delivered in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Yukon by the federal government... (read more)
Source: West Prince Graphic
The O’Leary Farmers Co-op Food Market has been temporarily closed because of an unforeseen mechanical malfunction. Co-op general manager Darren MacKinnon said the situation is still under investigation, but to the best of his knowledge the issue couldn’t have been anticipated or prevented... (read more)
Source: ACORN
ACORN is very pleased to make available the Directory of Organic Inputs: Livestock edition. Originally launched in October 2003, the revised Directory for Crops was released in July 2012; the revised Directory for Livestock was released in March 2013, and is now available online... (read more)
Source: LA Times
Elizabeth Lopez maneuvered a massive steel claw over the side of a 134-foot sailboat and guided its descent through swaying kelp and schools of fish 10 miles off the coast of San Diego. She was hoping to catch pieces of a mysterious marine ecosystem that scientists are calling the plastisphere... (read more)
Source: PETA
We’ve all seen the grocery store packages of meat, eggs, and dairy products decorated with reassuring phrases such as “natural” and “free-range” and pictures of happy animals running around quaint country barns. But people who buy organic or free-range animal products because they think that the animals are treated well are sadly mistaken... (read more)
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