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Warmer Climate Could Signal Major Crop Shifts in Brazil

2014-04-18 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Brazil may see a mass migration of crops and farm workers from huge swaths of currently tillable lands to more temperate zones as global warming takes hold, according to leading climate experts in the country. Longtime Brazilian climate researcher Hilton Silveira Pinto points to the drought thats cutting grain and coffee output this year as an indicator that rising global temperatures may already be impacting the countrys crops. "This is a taste of what is to come in the future," said Pinto,...

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Maple Leaf shutters wiener facility, shifts production within Hamilton

2014-04-18 02:44:03| Food - Topix.net

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. says it has closed its wiener production facility in Hamilton as part of a broader plan to move the operations to a bigger plant in the same city.

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Canadas Climate Warms to Corn as Grain Belt Shifts North

2014-04-15 00:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: The snow is piled waist-deep outside the Southern Manitoba Convention Centre as more than 400 farmers gather to consider the once-unthinkable: growing corn on the Canadian prairie. At one end of the packed auditorium last month in Morris, home of the Red River Wild hockey club, an Ohio farmer brought in by DuPont Co. (DD:US) is making a presentation with a slide that reads Ear Count 101. At the other end, Deere & Co. is showing off tractors and other equipment from a booth while Daryl Gross explains...

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US trade stance shifts from fast-track to smart-track

2014-04-11 18:35:42| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

US trade legislation that is "smart-track" rather than "fast-track," and reflects the apparel and footwear industries "as they are in this century - not as they were in the last one," is how the Senate Finance Committee's new chairman this week set out his upcoming agenda.

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Climate Changes to Result in Bird, Reptile Shifts

2014-04-09 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: As temperatures climb across the Southwest, researchers have found some species will win, but others stand to lose - and lose big. The U.S. Geological Survey and researchers from the University of New Mexico and Northern Arizona University released a report this week that takes a closer look at some of the effects climate change is likely to have on species such as the desert tortoise and the pinyon jay. The jay stands to lose nearly one-third of its breeding range, while other birds could...

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