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Comment: Biofuels are a fake climate change solution

There are too many costs of all types to make biofuels a solution to our problems

By Kenneth Sigurdson March 15, 2022

Biofuels in Canada cannot be produced without a subsidy or a government order called a mandate. The Canadian and various provincial governments are again increasing biofuel mandates as a simple solution to the serious climate change crisis we face. But are biofuels the solution politicians claim? Biofuels sound good and with mandates they cost government

Smoke rises from a wildfire over a hill at Kamloops, B.C. on July 1, 2021, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.

News, Other, Weather

‘Catastrophic’ wildfire risk is growing. Here’s how to cut it

Right now governments are stamping out flames, not preventing them

By Laurie Goering March 8, 2022

Thomson Reuters Foundation – The risk of catastrophic wildfires is growing around the world as climate change fuels sizzling, tinder-dry conditions, increasing the need for fire-prone countries to adopt preventive measures, scientists warned Wednesday. Smart, proactive policies — such as setting fires at the end of rainy periods to reduce blazes during hot, dry spells

Can a cool-season plant such as canola cope with a warmer summer and still be productive?

Crops, Oilseeds

Can a cool-season crop survive climate change?

As temperatures rise, so does the pressure on the Prairies’ Cinderella crop, canola

By Gord Leathers March 8, 2022

Canola, like its northern European ancestors that were introduced here decades ago, is a cool-season plant. It’s not happy with really hot weather, especially from the time it bolts to the time it finishes flowering. With the Prairies getting warmer, farmers need to consider what higher summer temperatures might do to one of their most

News, Other

Extreme wildfires are here to stay — and multiply

From Canada to Argentina and beyond, two new reports warn of fiery global future

By Gloria Dickie March 7, 2022

Reuters – Indonesia’s peatlands, Canada’s forests, and, now, vast swathes of Argentine wetland have all been ravaged by extreme wildfires, heralding a fiery future and the dire need to prevent it. With climate change triggering droughts and farmers clearing forests, the number of extreme wildfires is expected to increase 30 per cent within the next

A still from a New York Times video that suggests modern agriculture is doing irreparable harm to our planet.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Smarm, snarl, and snark

Style can’t replace facts, honesty, and ideas in an off-the-mark New York Times video

By Alan Guebert March 2, 2022

As deep winter reasserted itself over most of the continent’s farms and ranches, the New York Times brought some real heat to the Big-Ag-Fights-Climate-Change debate. In a 14-minute, fast-paced video titled “Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet,” the film’s subtitle not only names the killers, it convicts them, too: “American agriculture is

Soil biology is garnering more attention as crop input costs rise.

News

Farmers test microbes to nourish crops as climate pressure grows, costs rise

Soil biologicals are getting a lot of attention — and research money — in the past couple of years

By Karl Plume, Rod Nickel February 16, 2022

Reuters – Tech companies are raising hundreds of millions of dollars, including backing from agriculture heavyweights like Bayer AG, in developing farm products that use living things like microbes and seaweed to nourish crops and lessen the need for synthetic fertilizer. Microbes, including fungi and viruses, have been available for decades as treatments to protect

Other, Weather, Weather Vane

Are sunspots slowing global warming?

When sunspots increase, so too does the amount of energy coming from the sun

By Daniel Bezte February 9, 2022

As I write this there are still four days left in January. That means it’s a little too early for me to do a look back at January’s weather — spoiler alert, it was colder than average. For this issue, I am going to examine a topic that was brought up by a reader in

News

Agriculture’s role in fighting climate change discussed at KAP AGM

By Allan Dawson February 7, 2022

Manitoba and its farmers have a role in fighting climate change, says Manitoba’s new agriculture minister, Derek Johnson. “The (2021) drought underlined the impacts of climate change on our sector and reminded us of the importance to look ahead and prepare,” he told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ annual meeting Jan. 25 in a recorded video.

Seeding in southwestern Manitoba in the spring of 2021. (Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Alexis Stockford)

Weather

Last year was world’s sixth-warmest on record, U.S. scientists say

Heat content of oceans at record level, NOAA says

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 13, 2022

Reuters — Last year ranked as the sixth-warmest year on record, causing extreme weather events around the world and adding to evidence supporting the globe’s long-term warming, according to an analysis on Thursday by two U.S. government agencies. The data compiled by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA also revealed that

We have entered the all-hands-on-deck phase to quickly mitigate the devastating effects of the climate emergency.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Why carbon capture and storage is key

It will allow us to adapt more quickly and completely, to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency

By Naoko Ellis January 10, 2022

With the ongoing climate emergency, there’s a heightened need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions through whatever means possible. Despite this, carbon capture technologies have been labelled as a distraction from supporting renewable energies and as extending the life of the oil and gas industry. But this is a technology we cannot ignore. It concentrates

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy futures dip as traders await China sales; corn, wheat sag

Seeds Canada announces Dan Wright as new CEO

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