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EPA sends final biofuel blending rule to White House

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent a final rule on the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that oil refiners must blend into their fuel over the next three years to the White House for review, according to a federal website. The news puts the agency on track to meet a June deadline to
"We are feeling the fallout of those decisions that were made in 2020, and we’ll continue to do so until we see a new normal develop.”
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Meat industry hits hard times

Inflation, high interest rates and high input costs are catching up to sector

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The meat industry, particularly pork, is facing tough times as inflation catches up with demand. There’s been a torrent of bad news in the meat sector in the last two months. Tyson Foods reported its first quarterly loss since 2009; HyLife’s processing plant in Windom, Minn., declared bankruptcy; Smithfield Foods is closing 40 sow farms
Farmer Serhii demonstrates that moisture is captured below the residue of his no-till fields.
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From Ukraine: the living and the dead

As summer approaches, thoughts turn to harsh times yet to come

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A centuries-old spring tradition has been preserved in Ukraine, through the communist occupation of the last century and the current war. Every year, a week after Easter, we go to cemeteries. Tens of millions of people dress in nice clothes and take food with them. Coloured eggs — krashanky — and special tall breads —
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Pride comes before the fall; then comes the walking

From two-footed to two-wheeled and back again

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Long before the arrival of ATVs and colour television, the most common implement we used on the southern-Illinois dairy farm of my youth was our own two feet. Everyone from my parents to the hired hands walked everywhere, every day, without complaint or, as often was the case for me and my brothers, shoes. My
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‘Regen ag’ is all the rage, but it’s not going to fix our food system

Its being touted by companies, but other schools of thought are being pushed to the margins as a consequence

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Decades of industrial agriculture has had its costs. Soils have deteriorated and plant and animal species are disappearing. Landscapes are degraded and small-scale farmers are struggling. It’s little wonder we’re looking for more sustainable and just ways of growing food and fibre. Regenerative agriculture is one alternative creating a lot of buzz, especially in rich,
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Challenges that will shape the next farm bill — and how the U.S. eats

Changes to U.S. menus will invariably impact Canadian agriculture

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Congress is again writing a multi-year farm bill that will shape what kind of food farmers grow, how they raise it and how it gets to consumers. It’s projected to cost taxpayers US$1.5 trillion over 10 years. Legislators’ response will show whether Congress supports business as usual in agriculture or a more diverse and sustainable
"It is a chance to showcase that, as well as being working landscapes and being a critical part of farms in Manitoba and on the Prairies, that these particular ecosystems are incredibly valuable and we need to continue to build attention around them.”
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Rangelands to get global spotlight

2026 will be the UN International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, and local forage advocates are glad to see it

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Peas, lentils and beans got a big boost to their public profile thanks to the UN’s International Year of Pulses in 2016. Soils got a similar treatment a year earlier. In 2026, it will be all about grazed land. WHY IT MATTERS: Grassland habitat has been quickly disappearing on the Canadian Prairies and conservation groups
The Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Crops now realizes it made a mistake in proposing a code of practice for grain farmers before first demonstrating why it’s needed, says roundtable chair Jason Lenz, seen here in a video from last year promoting the code. 
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Proposed grain code morphs into sustainability ‘tool’

Group revamps controversial code after extensive consultations with buyers and farmers

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After four years and considerable controversy, Canada’s grain industry has revamped its proposed code of practice by turning it into a sustainability “tool.” A cross-Canada working group developed the guide, which is focused on practices already widely employed by farmers and on raising awareness of that stewardship, according to the chair of the Canadian Roundtable
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Australia, China not home free on trade relations

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Australia’s minister for trade and tourism, Don Farrell, told China’s commerce minister, Wang Wentao, that “we still have some way to go to establish usual trade across the board,” at a meeting in Beijing May 5. In his opening remarks at the 16th Joint Ministerial Economic Commission, Farrell also told Wang that his country “can
A concept drawing of ACC’s Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
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ACC Prairie Innovation Centre sees $50K bump

Insurance provider Johnston Group is the latest to give money to the Brandon project

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A Winnipeg-based insurance provider has added its name to the companies supporting Assiniboine Community College’s (ACC’S) Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. The incoming hub for ag and ag-adjacent programming at ACC received $50,000 from Johnston Group to add to its pool of private fundraising. “As a proud Manitoba company, Johnston Group supports initiatives that make

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