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Indigo Ag to roll out first tranche of farm soil carbon credits

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume June 29, 2022

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. farm technology firm Indigo Agriculture on Wednesday said its carbon farming program has produced 20,000 tonnes in soil carbon credits that it will sell as emissions offsets to buyers including JPMorgan Chase JPM.N, Barclays BARC.L and The North Face. They are the first agricultural soil carbon credits to be verified

A new provincial fund promises to help train staff, provide expert support, and meet other wide-ranging needs without cutting into project funds.

News, Other

New provincial trust to help build watershed districts’ capacity

The $2.5 million-fund means better staff training without tapping project funds

By Geralyn Wichers June 24, 2022

A new provincial trust will mean training staff to better help landowners without having to dip into project funding, says a watershed district manager. “It means we don’t have to… rob our project dollars to be able to deliver them more effectively,” said Justin Reid, manager of the Redboine Watershed District. “We’re able to put

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Ocean current collapse spells far-flung climate trouble

The end result could be a near-permanent La Niña-like condition around the world

By Andréa S. Taschetto, Bryam Orihuela-Pinto, Matthew England June 21, 2022

Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that bring warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research, published recently in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely. We found the collapse of this system – called the

Acre for acre, a salt marsh like this one in the Netherlands’ Western Scheldt estuary, stores five times more carbon than a forest.

News, Other

Land-building marsh plants are champions of carbon capture

Wetlands are Earth’s most efficient natural storage system for climate-warming carbon dioxide

By Duke University May 17, 2022

Human activities such as marsh draining for agriculture and logging are increasingly eating away at saltwater and freshwater wetlands that cover only one per cent of Earth’s surface but store more than 20 per cent of all the climate-warming carbon dioxide absorbed by ecosystems worldwide. A new study published May 6 in Science by a

Climate change requires all net CO2 emitters to cut output.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Real GHG emissions solutions need open mind

First steps in ag climate fight are honesty and courage, not offsets and credits

By Alan Guebert May 16, 2022

[UPDATED: May 19, 2022] Last May, the Canadian National Farmers Union (NFU), submitted a detailed response to the Canadian government’s earlier “Draft Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System Regulations.” The response, like the government request, went relatively unnoticed in U.S. ag circles. It shouldn’t have because the 23-page reply by the NFU was as shocking in

Shipping containers are shown scattered on April 12 after being washed away when heavy rains caused flooding at Durban in South Africa.

Other, Weather

South Africa’s floods a ‘teachable moment’ for climate adaptation

Devastating floods claimed over 300 lives on the country’s eastern coast

By Kim Harrisberg April 27, 2022

Reuters – As downpours swamped South Africa’s third-largest city this week, residents lucky enough to still have internet access and power shared harrowing videos of highways turned into rivers, collapsed buildings and flood-capsized cars. The deluge has killed more than 300 people in KwaZulu-Natal province, and with more heavy rain expected on the weekend residents

Dairy cattle, News

South African dairy farmers eye carbon credits while curbing emissions

By Wendell Roelf April 20, 2022

Reuters – On South Africa’s Lancewood dairy farm, a GPS-guided tractor spreads cow manure across defined areas where tilling is banned and fertilizer used at a minimum, if at all. Some 2,500 Jersey cows graze on a selection of plants, from chicory to alfalfa, that have been planted for feed variety while helping preserve the

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Saving the planet, one bite at a time

The latest climate change report from the UN has taken a welcome optimistic tone

By Sylvain Charlebois April 20, 2022

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now provided the world with a road map to saving the planet. For global food security, we must become better environmental stewards, and to reduce gas emissions, we need to adhere to sustainable agricultural practices in order to meet our 2030 targets, according to the

Letters, Op/Ed, Other

Letters: Hydro lines offer headaches

By Levina Cunningham April 19, 2022

Manitoba Hydro is planning a 230-kV metal-structured power line to boost capacity in Portage la Prairie from the Dorsey Converter Station (near Rosser). The proposed completion date is 2025. We live on a 430-acre farm near Poplar Point and are very concerned about the ‘preferred route’ Manitoba Hydro has chosen. It will go over our

Hogs, News

Manure releases from Smithfield hog farms raise environmental concerns

By Leah Douglas April 19, 2022

Reuters – More than 20 Missouri hog farms have reported an increase in emergency manure releases since U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods took them over in 2006, an environmental advocacy group says, citing equipment failures and improper maintenance that raise concerns about the impact on air and water quality. The group, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project

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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