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Farmers should be asking lots of questions if they want to keep their footing when it comes to offsets.
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Muddied waters on carbon credits

Cautious carbon optimism: While carbon offsets could be a boon for producers, experts warn the market is a volatile space with many risks to consider

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[UPDATED: Aug. 11, 2023] The message may go something like this: farmers live in a carbon-priced world and it’s time they started making that a positive, not a negative. Sign this contract, plant a cover crop and, based on the resulting carbon offsets, make a little money off some corporation’s environmental goals. But the landscape
Shipwheel Cattle Feeders of Taber, Alta. has found it can boost soil organic matter by integrating regenerative agriculture practices.
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Carbon offset program made for regenerative individuality

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REGENERATIVE | Researchers created a carbon map of Alberta so they could zoom in on farms’ soil carbon content

A developing carbon offset program is designed to encourage and incentivize regenerative farming without forcing producers to fit a cookie-cutter protocol. “To try to standardize something that is fundamentally adaptive and site specific, and also based on a lot of innovation, it’s going to put a cap on the innovation that can happen,” said Kimberly
Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole speaks at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Nov. 19, 2020. (File photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)
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Conservatives’ new climate plan puts price on carbon

New poll ranks carbon tax costs highest among farmers' springtime concerns

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Canada’s ag sector is expected to serve as a carbon sink, a renewable fuel source and a beneficiary in the federal Conservative Party’s new climate change plan — which now includes putting a price on carbon. Party leader Erin O’Toole announced the new plan Thursday — after a long campaign of vehemently opposing such policy.
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Tech firm aims to boost regenerative ag through A.I., machine learning

Terramera proposes to cut emissions, sequester carbon through efficiencies

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A Vancouver ag tech firm is pitching a proposal to both public- and private-sector investors that would use Microsoft technology to help the ag sector “pull carbon from the air.” Terramera on Monday put forward a $730 million proposal for an initiative it calls the Global Centre for Regenerative Agriculture, which would oversee efforts to
James Battershill, general manager for Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP).
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Manitoba’s consultations begin on pricing for carbon emissions

KAP members will be looking at what an offset market means for agriculture

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The provincial government has released a consultation document on devising a new output-based pricing system (OBPS) related to carbon emissions. The OBPS system, like a cap-and-trade program, will apply to large-scale industrial facilities with annual emissions of 50,000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, requiring these facilities to meet specific emission targets, or pay
Thousands of litres of fuel are needed for farmers to grow, maintain and harvest their crops, and a carbon tax could dramatically rise their fuel costs.
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Carbon tax alarms agriculture groups

Too heavy-handed regulation that’s out of step with other countries could put Canadian farmers at a disadvantage

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Proposals for a carbon tax to help reduce emissions that cause climate change pose a major threat to Canadian farmers, says the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association. Canadian farmers already have to cope with a tough climate, says Robin Speer, WCWGA executive director. “They’re already producing more food while using less land, water and fuel
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Throne speech commits to carbon pricing

An incentive program similar to ALUS could work with the province’s move towards carbon pricing, says KAP

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Manitoba’s new Conservative government committed to carbon pricing in its first speech from the throne but details remain sparse about what that means for farmers. When Premier Brian Pallister attended a public event last Friday in Morris, his spokeswoman said he would not be commenting on the issue — at least not yet. Dan Mazier,
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Australia’s Landmark Carbon Price Laws To Take Effect In 2012

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Australia passed landmark laws Nov. 8 to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade. The vote in the upper house Senate made Australia the second major economy behind the European Union to pass carbon-limiting legislation. Tiny New Zealand has a similar scheme. Its impact will be
Livestock

Making Money From Muck

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Nearly 700 Australian piggeries could benefit from the new rules that set out how farmers can capture, measure and destroy methane from pig waste. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is 21 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Under the domestic offset scheme called the Carbon Farming Initiative,
Livestock, News

Kill A Camel, Save The Planet

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Killing camels to earn carbon credits might seem an extreme way to fight climate change, but the Australian government issued detailed rules June 2 that will help investors do just that. Adelaide-based Northwest Carbon, a carbon project developer, has developed the rules, or methodology, governing a strict camel-culling program that would also cut greenhouse gas

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