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Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaks to media in Winnipeg on Feb. 13, 2020. (Dave Bedard photo)

Leaders ‘encouraged’ by collaborative approach to sustainability strategy

Most interests are represented around the table, but one group fears the strategy will saddle farmers with costs, rules

By Geralyn Wichers December 28, 2022

Ag leaders say they’re pleased to see the federal government strike a collaborative tone as it begins consultations over its Sustainable Agriculture Strategy, but not all are so optimistic. Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has signaled she’s not approaching the process with “preconceived notions,” said Stuart Oke, chair of the National Farmers Union’s climate committee.

U.S. special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry and Agriculture Sectretary Tom Vilsack applaud U.S. President Joe Biden’s speech at the COP27 climate summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on Nov. 11, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

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Farm climate innovation commitments at COP27 double to US$8 billion

Agriculture could outpace other industries to net zero: Vilsack

By GFM Network News November 12, 2022

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt | Reuters — An initiative led by the United States and the United Arab Emirates to help agriculture adapt to climate change and reduce emissions through innovation has doubled investment commitments to US$8 billion and extended its reach, it said on Friday. The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) was

FCL’s Co-op Fertilizer Terminal at Brandon. (Photo courtesy Federated Co-operatives Ltd.)

Crops

Canada can cut fertilizer emissions 14 per cent by 2030, industry groups say

Report touts use of 4R practices

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel September 8, 2022

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from applying nitrogen fertilizer by 14 per cent by 2030 through adoption of more sustainable farm practices and new technology, without any overall reduction in fertilizer use, agriculture industry groups said on Wednesday. Such reductions of nitrous oxide from 2020 levels would fall well

News, News & Opinion

Emissions goal realistic — even conservative — with enough funding, experts say

Quibbling about farmers' fertilizer efficiency clouds the real issue, a Manitoba researcher says

By Geralyn Wichers September 1, 2022

Claims that Canadian farmers can’t meet the government’s emissions reduction goals without wholesale cuts to fertilizer are utterly false, says a Manitoba researcher. “It’s pretty easy for us to meet the target,” said Mario Tenuta, senior industrial research chair in 4R nutrient management. Tenuta is based at the University of Manitoba. “Thirty per cent is

Columns, Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Simmer down

By Gord Gilmour September 1, 2022

It’s time for everyone to step back, take a deep breath, and tone down the rhetoric around the issue of fertilizer emissions. Because right now it’s being over-politicized, under-scrutinized and devoid of any rational examination. Here’s what we know so far. The federal government wants to see farmers reduce emissions from fertilizer by 30 per

Op/Ed, Opinion

Comment: Balancing production against pollution

By Suzanne Armstrong August 25, 2022

POLICY Focus should be on hunt for solutions that are a win for farms and the environment

The federal government has set a national reduction target for emissions coming from the use of nitrogen fertilizer to 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030. It is currently consulting on recommendations for how best to achieve this goal, but not on the goal itself. Many agriculture ministers were hoping this goal was open

John Heard discusses methods to reduce nitrous oxide emissions through nitrogen management.

Crops

New program funds farm emissions reduction practices

Prairie Watersheds Climate Program offers incentives toward control of nitrous oxide emissions; N management field tour coming up July 29

By Don Norman July 21, 2022

A new program is taking aim at agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Last month, the Manitoba Association of Watersheds (MAW) launched the first phase of the Prairie Watersheds Climate Program, a part of the federal government’s On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF). That’s a $200 million, three-year fund (from 2021 to 2024) that underwrites 12 different programs

File photo of federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on a tour of one of the original ‘Living Lab’ sites in Quebec that led up to the launch of the national ACS program in 2021. (Photo courtesy Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

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Feds boost Living Labs’ reach to all provinces

Nine projects, including first-Indigenous led lab, share $54M

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News July 15, 2022

The first crop of federally-funded “Living Labs” backed by the Agricultural Climate Solutions (ACS) program, set up to prove carbon-sequestering on-farm processes, takes the concept to the six provinces where such farm-level labs weren’t yet in place. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, speaking Thursday in Calgary, announced $54 million from the $185 million, 10-year ACS program

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: The world’s inefficient food web

The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows

By Arunima Malik, Mengyu Li July 6, 2022

The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up global greenhouse gas emissions, new research has found. It reveals how transporting food across and between countries generates almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector – and affluent countries make a disproportionately

File photo of a garbage dump at Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. (Rlesyk/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, Weather

Canada launches offset credits to help tackle emissions

Landfill gas protocols now launched; ag-related protocols soon to follow

By GFM Network News, Nia Williams June 9, 2022

Reuters — Canada on Wednesday launched a credit system for greenhouse gas offsets, a major part of its plan to cut carbon emissions, starting with a set of rules stipulating how projects can generate tradeable credits by capturing gas from landfills. The government said protocols for four other sectors including agriculture and forest management are

Daily Network News

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Bayer’s bid to curb Roundup cases

Canada-China roundup: Producer groups applaud tariff relief; pork left out; mix of criticism and praise from Trump administration

Opinion: Is a closer trade relationship with China a security risk?

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