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General Mills has set a goal of expanding regenerative agriculture practices on one million acres by 2030.

Funding expands for regenerative agriculture

General Mills and ALUS announce $2.3-million partnership

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 10, 2022

Regenerative agriculture proponents in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are getting another $2.3 million to work with. On July 27, food giant General Mills and stewardship organization ALUS announced the funds as part of “a multi-year partnership to support farmers and accelerate regenerative agriculture” in the two provinces. In a joint statement released on the ALUS website,

Comment, Letters

Letters: Time to redefine ‘progress’

By John Fefchak August 9, 2022

I am a first-generation Canadian, born and raised on a Manitoba farm in the 1930s. I did not take up farming as my livelihood, however I did learn to recognize that farm life can be extremely rewarding in so many different ways. I also learned to appreciate and realize that water and the environment were

Manitoba is in favour of carrots over sticks when it comes to sustainability programming, and that will factor into any plan, says Derek Johnson, Manitoba Agriculture Minister.

News

Assessing the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership

New five-year partnership agreement takes effect April 1, 2023

By Don Norman August 8, 2022

As the dust settles around the new partnership agreement signed by Canada’s federal and provincial ag ministers, many wonder what it means for Manitoba. The Sustainable Canadian Agriculture Partnership (SCAP) is the next five-year agricultural policy agreement that replaces the current Canadian Agricultural Partnership, which expires March 31, 2023. The agreement was the outcome of

Ag university students make up Moller’s milking workforce.

Dairy cattle, Livestock

How do you make a Danish cow stop burping?

The Danish dairy sector is under pressure to curb emissions, especially methane

By Geralyn Wichers August 3, 2022

Four fibreglass boxes, like small rooms, stand inside a bright, pristine space. Each box has metal stanchions, a hefty air-handling unit and a rubber mat that could be thought of as a bed. “So,” asks one of several journalists clad in biosecurity gear, “you trap the cow in there with their burps?” “No, no, no,

Sheldon Stott, senior director of corporate sustainability with HyLife Foods, speaks on the company’s fertilizer emission reduction project on July 18.

News, Other

More funding announced for greenhouse gas reductions

$2.5 million announced for green technology programs in Manitoba

By Don Norman August 2, 2022

HyLife Foods of La Broquerie has previously received a boost from the federal government’s Agricultural Clean Technology (ACT) program, but after the latest round of funding announced earlier in July, it is on a growing list of recipients. On July 18, federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced funds for 28 additional projects under

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: There’s money on the table. Use it

By Gord Gilmour July 28, 2022

Earlier this summer, serious funds to help farmers lower fertilizer emission levels landed in Manitoba. The Prairie Watersheds Climate Program, administered by the Manitoba Association of Watersheds, is part of the federal government’s On-Farm Climate Action Fund, which promises to spend $200 million over three years. The program will fund a dozen programs aimed at

On dairy farms, methane from cattle is a big part of their carbon footprint, but researchers say diet can control emissions at least somewhat.

Dairy cattle, News

Dairy carbon plans still on the drawing table

The sector’s net-zero plan banks on technology not yet available

By Geralyn Wichers July 28, 2022

The Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) has a goal to reach net zero on carbon emissions but admits the plan to get there doesn’t exist. Not yet, at least. “It kind of reminds me of JFK saying, ‘By 1969, we’ll have a man on the moon’ and they hadn’t invented rockets yet,” said DFC director

Ultimately for a farm business it will be a balancing act between costs and achieving emission reduction goals.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Will New Zealand farmers long for the ‘fart tax?’

A New Zealand proposal to reduce agriculture emissions involves a lot of trust – and a lot of uncertainty

By Ralph Sims July 13, 2022

After decades of avoiding inclusion in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), New Zealand’s primary production sector has begrudgingly acknowledged that reducing on-farm emissions of greenhouse gases is an imperative. Charged by the government with developing a pricing mechanism and strategy as an acceptable alternative to joining the ETS in 2025 under the Climate Change Response

The sun sets on the shrinking Lake Mead, April 16, 2022, where water levels have declined dramatically to lows not seen since the reservoir was filled after the construction of Hoover Dam, as climate change and growing demand for its water shrink the Colorado River and create challenges, in Boulder City, Nevada.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Opinion: Water reckoning coming to southwestern U.S.

A megadrought and runaway water use is a recipe for disaster

By Alan Guebert June 29, 2022

From 35,000 feet, the white ring that marks the high level of Lake Powell looks just like the ring of an emptying bathtub. The only difference is the chalky top mark on this big tub, once the second-largest freshwater reservoir in the U.S., is an unscrubbable 1,900 miles around. And Lake Powell, the upper reservoir

“The Iberian peninsula is an increasingly dry area and our rivers’ flow is slower and slower.” – Pedro Sanchez, Spanish Prime Minister.

News, Other, Weather

Western European heat wave stokes climate change fears

Dry rivers, stunted agriculture output fears stalk much of the region

By Inti Landauro, Tassilo Hummel June 29, 2022

Reuters – Spain was headed for its hottest early-summer temperatures in four decades on June 17, one area of France banned outdoor events, and drought stalked Italian farmers as a heat wave sent Europeans hunting for shade and fretting over climate change. Such was the heat that England’s upscale Royal Ascot Racecourse even saw a

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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