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Written by Garrett Simmons
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 17:18 |
The annual Taber and District 4-H Show and Sale will have a new twist this year.
For the first time ever, all the district 4-H clubs are coming together to showcase their yearly achievements. The 4-H Crazy Crafters, horse club and the Hays photo club will all be showcasing their year-long projects at the show and sale.
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Written by Trevor Busch
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 17:15 |
An innovative approach to farming practices is now currently being tested in Alberta to ascertain if it offers attractive advantages to producers.
Known as controlled-traffic farming (CTF), this process is a crop-production system with permanent traffic lanes where machinery tires travel each year. This approach restricts soil compaction to the permanent lanes and reduces the area of the field that is compacted compared to random traffic, resulting in improved crop yields. CTF uses a machinery system where as much as possible, all machinery uses a similar wheel gauge, the distance between wheels across the machine.
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Written by Garrett Simmons
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 16:23 |
Local sugar-beet growers will be monitoring the weather a little more closely than usual this week.
After cloudy skies dumped heavy rains on southern Alberta, Andrew Llewelyn-Jones of Lantic Sugar Inc. added this will be a make-or-break week for some fields.
It may be too early to say for sure, but there will be some low-lying areas that will be problematic, he added. Just how problematic they will be will depend on Mother Nature.
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Written by Greg Price
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 22:05 |
The following are briefs from the May 11 meeting of the Municipal District of Taber council meeting:
Grant funding expanded
The M.D. had its request for an increase in scope for the funding it received for just under $3.4 million from the Building Canada-Infrastructure Stimulus Fund for the replacement of 2,000 metres of waterline and replacement of service connections within the Hamlet of Enchant.
With the sluggish economy, tenders came in below initial estimates for the Enchant project, with the funding now available for scope of Grassy Lake water and sewer servicing of approximately $400,000.
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Written by Ric Swihart
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 22:04 |
Threats of decreasing the percentage of Canadian sugar in processed foods that still qualify for a made-in-Canada food label has stirred strong emotions in southern Alberta's sugar beet industry.
“I am very disappointed to hear that CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) is reconsidering changes to the food labeling content levels put in place a year ago," Rob Boras of Iron Springs, president of the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers marketing board, said in a letter to Lethbridge Conservative MP Rick Casson.
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