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Climate Change and Adaptation

Posted in Aggie times, tagged , , , , , , on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

 
Climate change is a reality, as demonstrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007. Human activity is a triggering contributor, stimulating the marked warming of the planet and consequently changes in climatic patters. Unless current damaging activities of increasing the level of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere are reversed, we will only face an [...]

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Passion for Agriculture

Posted in Aggie times, tagged , , , , , , on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Agricultural Communication students at the University of Guelph are full of passion for agriculture. The students are preparing for the Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture (CYSA) competition at the Royal Agriculture Winter Fair in Toronto on November 8, 2008, where the top six speakers will participate.
Well prepared but somewhat nervous students delivered their five to seven minutes speeches to an [...]

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Agricultural Journalism

Posted in Aggie times, tagged , , , , on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Journalists covering agricultural news have an international federation – The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ). At their last congress in Austria and Slovenia earlier this month, Canadian journalist and photographers circulated at the top.
Winner of the 2008 IFAJ Star Prize of Agricultural Journalism was Canadian Treena Hein, for her Up with hemp. She was [...]

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Biodiesel’s seasonal cool

Posted in Aggie times, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Outside temperatures drop closer and closer to the freezing point. This is a concern to anyone fuelling their car with a hundred percent pure biodiesel, made from soy and conola.  With cold temperatures the fuel turns into gel, hindering the fuel circulation.
Pure biodiesel turns to gel
Everpure Biodiesel Co-op’s season of offering their members biodiesel twice a week behind Jays [...]

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Agricultural information available on YouTube

Posted in Aggie times, tagged on September 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Agricultural news have in the past and continues this semester, to be distributed at YouTube by engaged University of Guelph students.
A first stop for anyone interested in agricultural news should be: http://www.youtube.com/AgriComm, says one member of the class.
Students are this semester ready to add to this resource, hoping to discover, produce and share agricultural news [...]

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‘Interesting aggie-times’ begins

Posted in No topic entires, tagged , , , , , , on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Perhaps daring, but the phrase ‘May you live in interesting times’ generates a curiosity that I seek to bring to this blog. 
It was brought to my attention by the author Terry Pratchett, when reading his Discworld novel Interesting Times. It was also the title of the historian Eric Hobsbawm’s autobiography. I find both writers extremely engaging and [...]

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