Soil Quality Is On The Public Radar

“National Soil Conservation Week allows us to celebrate this success and keep soils in the public eye.” – GLEN SHAW Farm soils are moving up the radar of public interest. Long the forgotten child of the environmental movement, there is growing evidence that soils are becoming of greater interest to the general public and the

Rancher Locks In Land For Wildlife Habitat

“Cattle need water and grass and so do ducks.” – RICK ANDREWS Ducks and cattle can get along famously, it seems. When the Kliever family decided to pack in their 1,600-acre grain-farming operation in 2003 and sow all their land down to grass instead, they had an inkling that Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) might be


Farming Must Change To Feed The World

The world’s farmers must quickly switch to more sustainable and productive farming systems to grow the food needed by a swelling world population and respond to climate change, FAO’s top crops expert told an international farm congress Feb. 4. In a keynote speech to 1,000 participants at the IVth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (CA)

Funds increased for habitat preservation

A program that helps preserve the Prairie landscape that is home to Manitoba wildlife will be provided a 20 per cent increase in provincial support, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers has announced. “New support for the Critical Wildlife Habitat Program (CWHP) will help conserve grassland habitat that is home to threatened and endangered Prairie wildlife,” Struthers