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Dan Mazier speaks at KAP’s AGM.
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Carbon pricing focus of KAP resolutions

Carbon pricing continues to generate debate as Canada moves closer to climate change deadline

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Carbon pricing is coming, but Manitoba producers are still trying to suss out exactly what that will mean for their farms. At Keystone Agricultural Producers’ annual general meeting in Winnipeg last week, three resolutions were put forward on the issue, including one asking for clarification on the organization’s position on the carbon pricing. That resolution
Climate change-fuelled drought could hit U.S. yields hard this century, researchers say.
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Climate change is poised to hit U.S. harvests

The latest models suggest many key crops could suffer 
significant yield losses in the coming decades

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Dutch researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change have published a paper in the journal Nature that says U.S. crop yields could be hard hit as the world warms. To better assess how climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions will likely impact wheat, corn and soybean, an international team of scientists ran
KAP asks for exemption of on-farm emissions
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KAP asks for exemption of on-farm emissions

Carbon pricing remains a heated topic of debate as Manitoba 
moves towards revealing a climate change strategy

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While Manitoba has yet to join other provinces in signing on to a national climate change framework, Keystone Agricultural Producers has prepared its own proposal for implementing carbon pricing. “We hope we have a solution here that will bring producers in as part of the effort to tackle climate change, but do it in a
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KAP still working on carbon pricing policy

At the same time the Manitoba government is still consulting on a made-in-Manitoba plan to battle climate change

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Keystone Agricultural Agricultural Producers (KAP) is fine tuning its carbon pricing policy even though Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister declined to sign a national framework to fight climate change at a federal provincial meeting in Ottawa Dec. 9. “It doesn’t change anything with our approach and what we are looking for in the system,” KAP president
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No easy answers to greenhouse gas emissions

We’ll all have to be part of the solution or we’ll be part of the problem

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The solution to pollution is dilution is an old saying, but unfortunately there is a limit to its truth. For well over a century we have been mining, drilling and burning fossil fuels as if Mother Nature intended us to. One gallon of gas can give the equivalent of 600-man hours of labour. Coal and
Canadian scientist Robert Sandford says there is an urgent need to address and adapt to climate change and its effects on the hydrological cycle.
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Western Canada has crossed into an entirely new hydro-climatic cycle, scientist says

Climate change is accelerating hydrology at an even faster pace than earlier thought, making for rapid-fire change

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A Canadian scientist says those trying to protect farmland from future floods, and bolster local resilience against other extremes of hydrologic climate change must do so with a sense of urgency. “I hope you’ll see beyond urgency to the emergency we face if we do not act in a timely and effective manner to protect
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Farmer changes his mind on climate change

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A lot of farmers are skeptical about climate change. Some are deniers. “I was a doubter as well,” Minto farmer Bill Campbell said in an interview after Keystone Agricultural Producers’ advisory council meeting Nov. 3. “But in the last five years I have kind of taken the approach that I can’t ignore it and I
Minto farmer Bill Campbell says based on the erratic weather on his farm the past five years climate change is real. During a debate on carbon pricing at Keystone Agricultural Producers’ advisory council meeting in Portage la Prairie Nov. 3 he argued passionately farmers should participate in reducing greenhouse gas emission.
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KAP develops carbon pricing position after intense debate

Farmers should be exempted from paying a price on emissions resulting directly from food production, while getting some of the carbon revenues to help them further reduce emissions

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There was vigorous back and forth as the Keystone Agricultural Producers laid out its carbon policy Nov. 3 at the fall advisory council meeting in Portage la Prairie. At times the discussion turned emotional as both sides had strongly held views on the issue. Farmers’ should be exempted from paying a price on any carbon
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Last five years were hottest on record

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Morocco/Reuters – The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are stoked by man-made climate change, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Some freak weather events would have happened naturally but the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said greenhouse gas emissions had
Wetland expansion due to heavier rainfall seems to be fuelling higher methane emissions, along with agricultural activity.
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Floods and farms fuel jump in methane emissions — researchers

Microbial sources of methane emissions are seen as the most likely source and are common to wetlands and farming

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A sharp increase in methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in the Earth’s atmosphere since 2007 is the result of higher emissions from biological sources such as rice paddies, cattle and swamps rather than fossil fuels, researchers recently announced. Methane traps heat, contributing to global warming. In 2014 the growth rate of methane in the atmosphere

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