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Ultimately for a farm business it will be a balancing act between costs and achieving emission reduction goals.
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Comment: Will New Zealand farmers long for the ‘fart tax?’

A New Zealand proposal to reduce agriculture emissions involves a lot of trust – and a lot of uncertainty

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After decades of avoiding inclusion in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), New Zealand’s primary production sector has begrudgingly acknowledged that reducing on-farm emissions of greenhouse gases is an imperative. Charged by the government with developing a pricing mechanism and strategy as an acceptable alternative to joining the ETS in 2025 under the Climate Change Response
The shift is so incredibly sharp, many vendors can’t agree with grocers on pricing, pushing them to put their business on hold...
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Comment: Dear Ottawa, help!

Food prices are climbing at a record pace in Canada and around the world

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It wasn’t a good week if you’re a consumer on a tight budget and that group includes most of us. Consumers are under attack right now, literally. We’ve just learned that Canada’s food inflation rate was at a record 9.7 per cent in May. Everyone is noticing higher food prices, and no section of the
The World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 28, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse)
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Comment: WTO steps back from the brink

But repairing long-standing problems still requires solid efforts

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After decades of conflict that has neutered its work, the World Trade Organization looks to be back in business. Its highest decision-making body – a conference of ministers from the organization’s 164 member nations – has just met for the first time since 2017. None of what the ministerial conference (dubbed MC12 due to being
brazil pineapple
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Comment: The world’s inefficient food web

The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows

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The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up global greenhouse gas emissions, new research has found. It reveals how transporting food across and between countries generates almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector – and affluent countries make a disproportionately
The sun sets on the shrinking Lake Mead, April 16, 2022, where water levels have declined dramatically to lows not seen since the reservoir was filled after the construction of Hoover Dam, as climate change and growing demand for its water shrink the Colorado River and create challenges, in Boulder City, Nevada.
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Opinion: Water reckoning coming to southwestern U.S.

A megadrought and runaway water use is a recipe for disaster

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From 35,000 feet, the white ring that marks the high level of Lake Powell looks just like the ring of an emptying bathtub. The only difference is the chalky top mark on this big tub, once the second-largest freshwater reservoir in the U.S., is an unscrubbable 1,900 miles around. And Lake Powell, the upper reservoir
Synthetic fertilizers have greatly enhanced crop yields and are rightly credited with helping to feed the world, but their use is not evenly spread around the world.
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Comment: Fertilizer crisis shows need for new way

Fertilizer prices are soaring – and that’s an opportunity to promote more sustainable ways of growing crops

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Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices and industry consolidation. The price of synthetic fertilizer has more than doubled since 2021. This crunch is particularly tough on those who grow corn, which accounts for half of U.S. nitrogen fertilizer use. The National Corn Growers Association predicts that its
Canada cannot concede on dairy then backtrack on those commitments while advocating for rules-based agreements.
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Comment: Canadian dairy hypocrisy revealed

Why New Zealand is right to call out Canada on its dairy industry

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When it comes to dairy and free trade, Canada wants it both ways. New Zealand’s dairy dispute with Canada reveals the ongoing tensions within Canada’s trade agenda. On May 12, New Zealand requested consultations with Canada over its administration of dairy tariff-rate quotas, known as TRQs. TRQs are the reserved amounts of a good that
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Comment: Ocean current collapse spells far-flung climate trouble

The end result could be a near-permanent La Niña-like condition around the world

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Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that bring warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research, published recently in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely. We found the collapse of this system – called the
In a mere few months, ground beef (seen here) and pork, two unprocessed, natural, and affordable animal protein sources, will be labelled as having too much saturated fat.
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Comment: Health Canada sees some saturated fats as more equal than others

This incoherent decision seems to be driven by ideology and special interests not facts

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Looks like we will all see different symbols on food packaging soon, telling us whether a food product at the grocery store has too much fat, sugar or sodium. Health Canada is likely going forward shortly with a policy requiring front-of-package nutrition symbols on foods high in saturated fat, sugars and sodium. It’s a concept
The oil market was largely unimpressed by the OPEC+ recent promise of higher output.
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Comment: Talk doesn’t equal oil production action

OPEC+ words contrast with Saudi action of raising oil prices

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Reuters – The gap between what is said in crude oil markets and what actually happens in the physical trading world has been illustrated by a commitment by the OPEC+ group to boost output being followed by its top member, Saudi Arabia, raising prices.  Producer group OPEC+ said after meeting in early June it would

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