Yellow And Blue Lupins For Home-Grown Protein
The News Review:
- Yellow And Blue Lupins For Home-Grown Protein
- Fresh Thinking On Home Grown Fodder
- CLA emphasis is on home-grown menu.
- Countries urged: Stop terrorists
- A deal is a deal
Yellow And Blue Lupins For Home-Grown Protein
Stackyard – Sep 22, 2006
“Lupins have attracted interest before as a potential home-grown alternative to bought-in soya, but unreliable yields and inconsistent performance with winter-sown white varieties have held back more widespread use in the dairy sector,” points out Dr Michael Abberton, head of legume breeding at IGER where the project is being co-ordinated. “The LISA project is now examining the germplasm of yellow and blue lupins to see if a focused selection process can produce more consistent varieties. In addition to more reliable yields we are also aiming for earlier maturity and greater tolerance of alkaline soils. “Spring lupins are not utilised widely in the UK, but do have the potential to increase efficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus use in arable rotations and as on-farm feed for dairy cows. Lupins can also provide a high protein grain of known provenance and provide a source of oils, energy and important secondary metabolites,” Dr Abberton explains.
Fresh Thinking On Home Grown Fodder
Stackyard – Sep 22, 2006
“The opportunities to establish Appin are greater where ultra early maizevarieties are being grown. These maturity class 10 and 11 varieties now offergood yields in a significantly reduced growing window, so after-maize crop establishmentis much more viable, whether stubble turnips, rye, or even a ryegrass ley insome situations. ”Mr Wilkie also introduced some innovative thinking on out-wintering, specificallyon winter hardy kale varieties. “Out-wintering is as much about cost saving as it is about the provisionof additional fodder,” he said. “The simple premise with out-winteringis that you are reducing the labour and cost of hauling and storing forage tohoused cattle by feeding the crop where it is grown.
CLA emphasis is on home-grown menu.
Free with registration – Farmers Guardian – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 22, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 CMP Information Ltd. THE CLA’s president David Fursdon, CLA Cheshire president Anthony Barbour, Sir Nicholas and Anne Winterton and the High Sherriff of Cheshire, David Briggs,were among the 80 guests who attended the annual meeting of the Cheshire county branch at Combermere Abbey, when the emphasis was very much on food and.
Countries urged: Stop terrorists
Manila Standard Today – Sep 22, 2006
Rolando Garcia, chief of the Philippine Center for Transnational
Crimes, said many of the terror cells in Asia were created after Al
Qaida leader Osama bin Laden founded the International Islamic Brigade
in Afghanistan that fought to drive the Russians out. “Some of these fighters used by Bin Laden were slain by Abu Sayyaf
leader Janjalani who, after he went back to the Philippines from Afghanistan,
also created his own terror group in Mindanao,” Garcia said. “They are now what we call home-grown terrorists with fraternal
ties to Bin Laden, and they continue to receive funds from the Al Qaida
leader through the various nongovernmental organizations he has created. ”
On Tuesday, the Interpol formally opened its assembly at the Fort
Copacabana at the Ipanema area and initially approved three of 22 pending
resolutions including the creation of an anticorruptionon academy to
stop corruption in the public service, particularly law enforcement,
because it undermines the effectiveness of law enforcement, weakens
the efficiency and legitimacy of police forces, and erodes public confidence
in law enforcement and justice. The Philippine delegation here is headed by National Police Chief
Oscar Calderon, Garcia, National Bureau of Investigation Dir. Nestor
Mantaring, and his NBI Interpol chief Claro de Castro Jr.
A deal is a deal
Times Online – Sep 22, 2006
Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. This time the aim is not to rein in home-grown but presumptuous oligarchs. It is to rewrite the terms under which Western oil firms operate in the “supergiant” oil and gas fields of Siberia and the Russian Far East — fields that represent the most plausible long-term hope of weaning the de- veloped world off its reliance on Middle Eastern energy. Shell, BP, Total and Exxon, among others, have invested tens of billions of dollars since the mid-1990s in production-sharing agreements (PSAs) with the Russian Government. Under these contracts, foreign investors met most of the costs of vast new extraction projects on the understanding that they would recoup those costs before sharing the proceeds with the Kremlin. The biggest single PSA — and the biggest privately funded energy project in the world — is the Sakhalin-2 gas field, from which liquefied natural gas was to start being shipped to Japan in 2008, bringing Shell and its partners their first returns on an estimated $20 billion investment.