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Carbon pricing coming to Manitoba: KAP wants farmers’ input to get best plan

Teleconference and webinar starts at 8 a.m. Oct. 4

By Allan Dawson September 30, 2016

Carbon pricing, which is aimed at mitigating climate change, is coming to Manitoba and the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) want farmers’ input on how it should be done. To that end KAP has organized a conference call and webinar for farmers Tue. Oct. 4 at 8 a.m. to learn more about options and to hear

Research at the University of Illinois simulates future atmospheric conditions to determine their effects on plants. Here, Professor Andrew Leakey (r), works with research assistants Lindsey Heady and David Marshak.

Did you know?, News

Study says CO2 benefit of global warming overestimated

While higher CO2 levels can mean greater growth it appears they also set plants up to be more susceptible to drought losses

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 19, 2016

An eight-year study suggests talk of higher yields under a global warming scenario may be overly optimistic. University of Illinois researchers grew soybeans in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere and they say their findings are worrisome. Under ideal growing conditions higher CO2 will boost plant growth, but an article in the journal Nature Plants suggests drought,

Livestock, Weather

Study finds Canadian beef’s GHG footprint shrunk over 30 years

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 11, 2016

Efficiencies in cattle production and feeding have allowed Canada’s beef industry to produce the same weight in beef as 30 years ago with smaller breeding herds, less land — and smaller greenhouse gas (GHG) output, a new study finds. The study, led by research scientist Tim McAllister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge, with

Carbon dioxide readings at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory from 1960 through 2015.

Weather

A look back at a record-shattering October

It’s now a foregone conclusion that 2015 will be the warmest year on record

By Daniel Bezte December 2, 2015

I know I promised to look at big snowfalls that have occurred in the past, then look at the probabilities of receiving different amounts of snow, but there are a couple of global weather stories that I thought should take precedence. Remember when I reported that, for the first time in a while, the University

Opinion

Editorial: Canada’s GHG stance tarnishes our brand

By John Morriss June 29, 2015

Things aren’t going too well in the international trade agreement department. At the World Trade Organization (WTO) round, which has been dragging along since 1991, it’s come to the point where the director general is actually being honest about its prospects. “Taking an overview of all of these consultations it is hard to see a

Crops, Did you know?, News

Rising CO2 levels may cut nutrient levels in crops, study finds

Wheat and rice were lower in zinc, iron and protein at higher levels of CO2

By Will Dunham May 15, 2014

Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may cut the nutritional quality of some of the world’s most important food crops, researchers reported May 7 after conducting experiments simulating conditions expected by mid-century. The amounts of two important nutrients, zinc and iron, were found to be lower in wheat, rice, soybeans and field peas

Keeling curve graph showing rising CO2 levels.

Weather

CO2 levels highest in over three million years

Temperatures may keep rising for decades after this level is hopefully stabilized

By Daniel Bezte March 25, 2014

Atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) levels on top of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa hit a record high of 401 parts per million earlier this month, and as we are still a month or so away from peak CO2 levels, this record will likely be broken. Just what does this mean? Let’s start off be looking at the

Crops

No relief for Earth’s warming trend in 2013, studies find

It may have been cold here lately, but overall, the world keeps getting warmer

By Irene Klotz February 11, 2014

The average temperature of Earth maintained its warming trend in 2013, despite seasonal and regional variations that included a shrinking ice cap in the Arctic and a massively growing one in the Southern Hemisphere, U.S. scientists said Jan. 21. NASA said the planet’s average temperature in 2013 was 58.3 F (14.6 C), tying 2006 and

Opinion

Whither the weather?

By Laura Rance-Unger January 25, 2012

If this is global warming — bring it on! That was a common response to last week’s record-setting temperatures across southern Manitoba —at least initially. Who could complain about a daytime high of 11 C the first week of January? But at the same time few could deny a sense of unease over a less-than-white

Crops

Perennial Crops May Store Carbon

By Shannon VanRaes September 8, 2011

Finding ways to make farming more environmentally sound is one of the goals of a greenhouse gas study taking place south of Winnipeg. “What we’re trying to do is to see if it’s possible to generate cropping systems that are greenhouse gas neutral; in other words we want to build up soil carbon and prevent

Daily Network News

2025 set to be among hottest years on record: WMO

Nutrien tops profit estimates, launches review of phosphate business

U.S. grains: Soybean prices rise as China-U.S. truce assessed

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