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

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

Crops, Opinion

Human security at risk as depletion of soil accelerates, scientists warn

Change is needed so that valuable, non-renewable fertilizers are recycled

By Berkeley Release, University Of California June 2, 2015

Steadily and alarmingly, humans have been depleting Earth’s soil resources faster than the nutrients can be replenished. If this trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with the effects of climate change, will present a huge risk to global food security over the next century, warns a review paper authored by some of the top

Crops, News

Global group looks to no till to tackle climate change and hunger

By Daniel Winters June 16, 2012

Getting developing countries to adopt Canadian-style no till would be a “win win” in combatting global hunger and climate change, says the former head of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s research division. Restoring organic matter in soils in China, India and Africa is becoming a matter of life and death, says Wayne Lindwall, who began no-till

News

Organic Farming May Help Meet Climate Goals

December 3, 2009

The conversion of all U. K. farmland to organic farming would achieve the equivalent carbon savings to taking nearly one million cars off the road, the Soil Association said Nov. 26. Britain’s largest organic certification body, issuing results of a research project, said on average organic farming produces 28 per cent higher levels of soil

Livestock

Methane Emitter Or Carbon Sink?

By Daniel Winters August 27, 2009

“…if you drain that wetland and convert it into cropland, you’re just exchanging that methane problem for a nitrous oxide problem.” – PASCAL BADIOU Tackling the threat of global climate change is tough enough; it’s harder still when you aren’t even sure of the culprits. For example, cattle emit methane, but good grazing management practices

News

Farmers Have A Spot In Carbon Market Plan

By Alex Binkley August 6, 2009

Environment Minister Jim Prentice has unveiled proposals for a carbon market system in Canada and cited farmers as among the groups that could benefit. Farm groups are interested but have questions about the details. In a speech to the Economic Club of Canada, Prentice said, “Projects that could qualify for offsets span the economy, from

Crops

U. S. Farmland May Be Carbon Sink

April 2, 2009

The Conser vat ion Reserve, which pays owners to idle fragile U. S. farmland, could become one of the largest carbon sequestration programs on private land, an Agriculture Department official said March 25. Some farm-state lawmakers say efforts to reduce greenhouse gases could result in a payoff in rural America because some agricultural practices, such

Daily Network News

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USDA confirms bird flu case in Wisconsin dairy herd as new wildlife spillover

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Modest increases for cash prices

Tag Archives Carbon sequestration

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

Human security at risk as depletion of soil accelerates, scientists warn

Global group looks to no till to tackle climate change and hunger

Organic Farming May Help Meet Climate Goals

Methane Emitter Or Carbon Sink?

Farmers Have A Spot In Carbon Market Plan

U. S. Farmland May Be Carbon Sink

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