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Tariff anxiety hits Canadian honey producers
Canadian beekeepers are lobbying to keep their products out of the trade war. The U.S. tariffs may cause problems for the industry, but the domestic market may be enough to keep the Canadian honey industry strong.
Saskatchewan company pitches decarbonized fertilizer
CARBONCO's post-production carbon capture will remove carbon dioxide from fertilizer manufacture and send it deep underground at incoming Genesis Fertilizers plant.
The science of burp-busting GHGs in cattle
By now, many beef and dairy cattle producers have heard of Bovaer, the methane-reducing cattle supplement recently greenlit for use in Canada. It’s being heralded as a tool to help those industries achieve their greenhouse gas reduction goals. But is Bovaer safe for animals and the humans that consume their products? A retired researcher gives[...]
‘Little hammers’ control weeds on organic farm post-harvest
Glacier FarmMedia – Conventional grain farmers have chemical tools to manage weeds post-harvest, but for certified organic producers like Ward Middleton, options are limited. “We don’t really have a sledgehammer-type problem-solving option to control weeds, so we have to use many little hammers,” said Middleton, quoting weed ecologist Eric Gallandt, who coined the phrase at the 2012 Canadian[...]
Clubroot ‘race profiling’ can help boost resistance in canola
Glacier FarmMedia – Racial profiling isn’t a term most people would want to be associated with. When it’s a disease like clubroot, however, it’s different. In the fight against the yield-stealing, soil-borne scourge of canola and other brassica plants, racial profiling is the ability to select varieties that resist not only clubroot in general, but[...]
In the battle to reduce cow burps, seaweed takes centre stage
Glacier FarmMedia – Cow burps continue to be headline news, with many — from Bill Gates to a Calgary startup — backing seaweed to save the planet from methane-belching cattle. But despite the hype, slipping a little seaweed into cattle feed is unproven science that needs more study, says one of the leading experts on[...]
Researchers use gene editing to create breakthrough canola variety
Glacier FarmMedia – Researchers have used gene editing to bring to life a new shorter, highly branched variety of canola that has more pods and is easier to harvest. “Based on my conversations with some people in the agriculture industry — including primary producers — they would love to have a crop like this,” said[...]
Smart sprayer tech developing quickly
Producers have been hearing about weed-targeting spot-spraying sensors for some time, but it’s always seemed to be the stuff of science fiction. In some cases, however, the future is now while in others it’s coming quickly — it all depends on the type of sensor tech you’re interested in. Well-known spraying expert Tom Wolf separates precision spot-spraying tech into[...]
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