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New research is exploring another crucial ecosystem function to agriculture — the role shelterbelts play in maintaining soil fertility by sustaining soil biological activity
Scientists and environmental agencies inform us that agriculture on the prairie, like in most parts of the world, is becoming more vulnerable as climate changes, energy cost rises and natural resources including organic matter and biodiversity are depleted. This increased vulnerability not only threatens food security at a global scale (the Canadian Prairies contributes toBipole III will see 148-foot-high towers placed mid-field in a swath of farms stretching from Langruth to St. Claude and nearly as far east as Steinbach
Manitoba Hydro just doesn’t understand modern farming and its Bipole III route will cause headaches across much of the province’s farming heartland for decades to come, a series of witnesses told the Clean Environment Commission over the past several weeks. The southern portion of the multibillion-dollar transmission line is slated to come down south of
