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Olds College is now offering a new major aimed at training the next generation of land-use planning technicians and development officers. These roles involve gathering and researching environmental data to help assess how residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural developments interact with rural landscapes and ecosystems. This new program addresses both an employment shortage and an[...]

University of Illinois researchers mapping the cattle genome say that of the genes mapped so far, 83 per cent could be identified as identical to human genes."The comparative map has enormous predictive power," lead researcher Harris Lewin, director of the W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics at the University of Illinois said in[...]

Funding for organic farming, "green" farming, farmer co-ops and farm safety nets are on Jack Layton's to-fund list in the New Democratic Party's new agriculture platform. NDP leader Layton released the party's full platform Sunday in Toronto, with just over two weeks before a federal election. Among other points, the NDP's platform proposes a series[...]

The federal government needs to release its plan now for food safety inspections in Canada, without worrying about the "communications risks" involved in releasing it, the federal Liberals said Wednesday. News reports in the past week have stated that a Canadian Food Inspection Agency biologist has been sacked after finding confidential documents outlining such a[...]