Researchers at the University of Manitoba are confident sophisticated computer modeling will help ensure the emissions from biomass fuelled heating systems meet acceptable environmental standards. The two-stage greenhouse gas displacement system, developed by Vidir Biomass Systems, uses large straw bales as fuel and relies on primary combustion followed by secondary combustion to get a complete burn.
Fix those things you can fix Leave those you can’t well enough alone
Randy Tkachyk is a beef producer in southeast Manitoba who wasn’t sure what to when BSE shut the US border in May of 2003. He started selling beef from his own cattle to friends, neighbours, relatives. Today he’s part owner of ManitobaBeef.Com.
2nd International Symposium on Agroterrorism
The second annual International Symposium on Agroterrorism is coming up September 25 – 29 in Kansas City, MO.
NPPC Voices Concern Over Proposed Canadian Ban of Carbadox
The US based National Pork Producers Council is expressing its concern over a Health Canada proposal to restrict even more the use of Carbadox in Canada. Carbadox is an antibiotic used to protect against swine dysentery in the nursery phase.
Interview With IFAJ President
The ZimmCast is coming to you from Norway this week. He’s a busy man, but IFAJ President David Markey took a few minutes out to visit with me.
ABIC Program
I guess the Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference is over now. I’m betting I’ll still have some more information for you.
Wheat That Beats Drought
I have to thank Wendy Lewis with FS Communications for helping me “cover” the Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference in Australia. She’s getting me story ideas and pictures!
Biotech Exposes Cod Sex Life
I think this looks like a tasty morsel. Cod is an excellent fish. These biotech researchers in Australia though seem to have gotten off the track a little bit don’t you think? I’ve tried to keep this a very clean site and stay away from the “s” word but this story is too good to pass up.
Ag Biotechnology In Australia
There’s a big biotechnology conference going on in Australia this week. I was invited to attend but have to be in Kansas City and then on to Norway. Darn the luck, eh?
World Harvest for Kids Sets Record
It’s a new world record, and it’s going for a good cause. Winkler began to celebrate it’s centennial today by harvesting 160 acres of wheat with 100 combines