Sustainable beef body asks for farmer input

Chair Anne Wasko says the CRSB is seeking feedback from all producers

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Published: October 18, 2021

The Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) is urging producers to weigh in on the next round of environmental metrics on the beef industry.

The roundtable launched a producer survey in late September.

Responses will be part of the roundtable’s benchmarking efforts and will provide updated numbers to estimates calculated by the CRSB following the last data collection in 2016.

Previous survey responses played into the CRSB’s estimates on things like greenhouse gas emissions or water use associated with the cattle industry.

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CRSB chair Anne Wasko said those numbers are then used in the industry’s conversations with government and businesses.

“This is that report that we use to tell people, ‘this is what the beef industry numbers are in terms of those environmental-type numbers,” Wasko said.

The CRSB hopes to draw at least 500 respondents.

“We want everybody, even if you have nothing to do with the certification program,” Wasko said. “We want as many producers as possible, because this is telling the picture of the Canadian beef industry — from coast to coast, from small to large, from cow-calf to feedlot, everything.”

The survey is available on the CRSB’s website, under the “Sustainability Benchmarking” tab and will run throughout the rest of 2021.

Surveys will take about half an hour to complete, according to the CRSB.

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Alexis Stockford

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Alexis Stockford is editor of the Manitoba Co-operator. She previously reported with the Morden Times and was news editor of  campus newspaper, The Omega, at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. She grew up on a mixed farm near Miami, Man.

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