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Rick Andrews and his wife Judy at the DUC land dedication event.

DUC honours conservation leader

Long-serving staff member recognized his love for nature at an early age

By Don Norman November 7, 2022

As a child, Rick Andrews could see the future. “I was one of those very fortunate people who knew what I wanted to do at a very young age,” he says. By the time Andrews was in his pre-teens, he had become enamoured with the outdoors and knew he wanted to work in conservation and

A U.S. oil refinery in Texas. The world’s two largest refinery systems are both producing less distillate fuel than before the pandemic erupted.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Diesel’s gloomy message for the global economy

The only way to rebalance supply and demand is more supply or a deep recession

By John Kemp November 2, 2022

Global shortages of middle distillates such as diesel, gas oil and heating oil are intensifying rather than easing, making it more likely a relatively severe slowdown in the business cycle will be necessary to rebalance the market. U.S. inventories of distillate fuel oil depleted to 106 million barrels on Oct. 7, the lowest seasonal level

Through soil degradation and increased urbanization, we lose an area the size of Scotland every year. Just two per cent of the world’s land area produces 40 per cent of the world’s food.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Soil matters – charting a path forward

Action is needed to preserve and improve soil health, but it must be judicious

By Don Lobb November 2, 2022

The following is an excerpt from a statement made by the author to the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Status on Soil Health in Canada) meeting, Sept. 22. Since the Senate of Canada “Soil At Risk” report was conceived by Senator Herb Sparrow four decades ago, generally soil management has improved and crop

Investors are increasingly focusing on links between a healthy food system and efforts to fight global warming and preserve biodiversity. Photo: fotografixx/Getty Images

Crops, Markets

U.N.-backed investors set fresh targets in sustainable food shift

By GFM Network News October 27, 2022

Reuters – A U.N.-backed group of global financial institutions including Dutch lender Rabobank on Thursday set out a series of company specific environmental and social targets aimed at helping drive a shift to a more sustainable food system. Set by a group of 11 firms in the Good Food Finance Network, including Nuveen Natural Capital

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: ‘The ceaseless drive to endless increase…’

Nitrogen overuse has serious implications for the globe

By Alan Guebert October 26, 2022

It usually goes without notice or comment, but three of the planet’s key elements – carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen – sit like ducks in row on the periodic table. None is more important than the others but if there’s a first among equals it would be nitrogen, as a prescient report from Canada’s National Farmers

Margret Sinda(left to right), Gladys Chigamba and Catherine Fridolin.

News, Other

African freshwater scientists visit Manitoba lakes

Pollution, algae blooms a big concern in African and Manitoban lakes

By Geralyn Wichers October 25, 2022

Four African scientists found parallels between their home lakes and the problems facing Manitoba’s lakes during a recent visit to the province. “We have this common problem of pollution. It doesn’t spare anyone,” said Gladys Chigamba, a research scientist at Lilongwe University in Malawi. Chigamba and three other women from Malawi, Kenya and Tanzania, visited

"No luck for me for shelterbelt funding or anything else.” – Dane Froese.

News, Other

Farmers frozen out of climate funds

They say RM-watersheds wrangling has left them out in the cold

By Geralyn Wichers October 24, 2022

A group of farmers are locked out of a federal funding pool for emissions reduction because their municipalities don’t have agreements with their local watershed districts. Two farmers from the RM of Roland, one from the RM of Portage la Prairie and one from the RM of Morris told the Co-operator they didn’t qualify for funding under the Prairie

News

New Zealand farmers to face livestock emissions charges

By Lucy Craymer October 24, 2022

Reuters – The New Zealand government has confirmed plans to separately price agricultural long-lived gases and biogenic methane that mainly comes from cow and sheep burps, in a plan that concerns farm groups. The government recently released its proposed plan on agricultural emissions pricing, which when introduced in 2025 will make New Zealand, a large

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Guest Editorial: A carrot with a consequence

By Kristy Nudds October 20, 2022

Glacier FarmMedia – In response to the backlash it has been receiving from farmers and industry over its nitrous oxide (NO2) emissions target, the federal government was quick to reiterate that it is a goal, not a mandate. However, whether this is an achievable goal is still up for debate. By setting a goal, the

“If you use weather data, you won’t find one of these droughts. Look at these droughts of 20 to 30 years.” – David Sauchyn, PARC.

Farmit Manitoba, Other

Tree ring timeline a window into the past – and future

Recent droughts have been devastating but the trees say we ain’t seen nothin’ yet

By Geralyn Wichers October 19, 2022

It’s 888 CE. In Europe, the Vikings are rampaging through England and France and the Carolingian dynasty is losing its grip on the Holy Roman Empire. In China, the Tang Dynasty is in power. In what’s now Saskatchewan, Indigenous peoples are living through a dry spell that would last another three or four decades. Scientists

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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