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‘The hog sector is transitioning to Canadian Pork Excellence, a set of programs that allow registered pork producers to demonstrate compliance with food safety and animal care requirements.’ – Cam Dahl

Comment: Farmers and the ‘prove it’ generation

Be real about modern agriculture because there’s much to be proud of

By Cam Dahl September 12, 2022

What is a farmer’s relationship with environmental and animal welfare certification programs? Would it be right to say that it’s complicated? On one hand, farmers feel targeted by those in the activist community who reject the realities of modern agriculture. No genetically modified anything. No fertilizer. No pesticides. Small holdings with a few chickens, a

Prince Charles (now King Charles III) visits Shane Fitzgerald’s Kil Mige Mogue farm near Waterford in southeast Ireland on March 24, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Phil Noble/Pool)

Weather

What will King Charles’s reign mean for climate action?

Some projects may be handed to other family members

By GFM Network News September 9, 2022

London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — As Britain’s King Charles III begins his reign after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, environmental campaigners will be watching closely to see if he continues to advocate for climate action and is able to help drive change as monarch. In his first speech to the nation

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Let’s be careful not to greenwash regenerative agriculture

By Kristy Nudds September 9, 2022

Food companies like to use descriptors such as “non-GMO”, “gluten-free”, “humane certified” and numerous labels to differentiate their products in the marketplace. These often follow consumer trends, usually initiated by lobbyists for environmental, animal welfare, nutrition and health groups. They can also be considered greenwashing when they are used incorrectly or fraudulently. The latest trend

Other, Weather, Weather Vane

How has a warming climate impacted Manitoba?

Let’s see if my 15-year-old predictions for our province panned out

By Daniel Bezte September 7, 2022

Every so often I like to look back at some of the articles I’ve written over the years. While doing this, I came across an article from 2007 that was my attempt to answer the question of how climate change will impact the weather across agricultural Manitoba over the next 10 to 20 years. I

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Is fake meat healthy? And what’s actually in it?

It can be more environmentally sustainable but not all effects are clear

By Katherine Livingstone, Laura Marchese September 6, 2022

The popularity of plant-based proteins, or “fake meat,” has increased in recent years as consumers look to eat fewer animal products. Many consumers believe these fake meats are better for their health, as well as better for the environment, but is that right? It may sound obvious, but the first thing to say is that

News

NFU calls for agriculture to ‘scale back’ nitrogen use, export goals

System transformation, not tweaking, is needed to mitigate climate change, says new report

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 6, 2022

EMISSIONS System transformation, not tweaking, is needed to mitigate climate change, says new report

Pushing for higher yields and greater exports each year will lead to greater nitrogen greenhouse gas emissions, even if greater efficiency is achieved, says a new report from the National Farmers Union (NFU). “If we do not scale back… if we pretend instead that tweaking our nitrogen-use practices can solve the problem, we may make

For many crops, our farmers’ ability to grow anything will be severely compromised, unless they use more land.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Farming is losing to urban politics

Not tying fertilizer use to productivity is a dangerous failure of federal policy

By Sylvain Charlebois August 22, 2022

Most Canadians have never been on a farm, let alone lived on one, which makes more than 98 per cent of our population agriculturally illiterate. For many Canadians, crop production is an unknown concept. Because of this, it’s relatively easy to use fear to influence public opinion on any food-related issue involving agriculture. Activists know

“Our position is that ESN does reduce nitrous oxide emissions during our short-season, dryland prairie conditions.” – Curtis Rempel.

News

ESN off the table for climate fund incentives

Canola Council of Canada wants AAFC to revisit the change

By Don Norman August 22, 2022

The Canola Council of Canada says ESN has been scratched from the list of incentives being offered to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer in the federal government’s On-Farm Climate Change Action Fund (OFCAF). The fund was launched in February by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) to help farmers adopt and implement immediate on-farm beneficial management practices that

Jim Warren, a soil scientist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, delineates the earth’s upper soil layers in a pit during the Harnessing the Power of Soil Health at the Grand River Raceway event where Senator Rob Black announced the national soil health study launching in the fall.

News, Other

National soil health study set to launch

It’s been decades since the last study was completed in 1984

By Diana Martin August 17, 2022

Glacier FarmMedia – The Canadian Senate plans to launch a new national soil health study this autumn. “The last study was done in 1984, chaired by Senator Herbert Sparrow,” said Senator Rob Black. “When I got into the chamber four and a half years ago, I set my sights on another Senate study.” Black announced

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Forty billion green reasons to go green

If the U.S. budget passes, green ag is about to get a big boost

By Alan Guebert August 15, 2022

If American farmers and ranchers really want to live the oft-repeated boast that they are “the first environmentalists,” then, by golly, Joe Manchin and his Democratic Senate colleagues have the legislative vehicle to prove it. Manchin, the chief monkeywrencher of Dem dreams for the last two years, shocked everyone when he and Senate Majority Leader

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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