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MCA urged to help farmers reduce nitrous oxide emissions
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MCA urged to help farmers reduce nitrous oxide emissions

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Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA) could help farmers cut nitrous oxide emissions, a potent greenhouse gas, in the future. MCA members passed a resolution calling on the organization to set up an “ongoing Farmer-to-Farmer Soils and Crops Management educational forum to help farmers implement best management practices aimed to reduce nitrous oxide… released from our soils.”
“Other Canadian sectors are being well supported to reduce emissions and re-skill the labour force, but farmers are being left behind."
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Farmer coalition calls for $300 million to cut ag emissions

The group recommends six programs it says will boost climate-friendly farming practices

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A coalition of farmers, scientists, economists and policy experts are calling for the federal government to put $300 million of its 2021 budget toward cutting agriculture greenhouse gas emissions. “Most Canadians, and almost all supply chains, are asking for more sustainable food and farming,” said Ian McCreary in a news release. “But as a farmer,
It’s not just a pretty sight, a natural landscape also benefits everyone.
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What’s the value of our natural landscapes?

Taking care of the environment isn’t free and should be compensated

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If you have looked around your local countryside, you may have noticed that we are losing our trees. This is considered progress as we are developing more arable land to grow more food which makes our farms more profitable. But on the other side of the coin, we need the benefits that natural landscapes provide
The national budget watchdog has put a price on a fuel exemption for farmers from the carbon tax.
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PBO estimates cost of expanded carbon tax exemption

Estimates are based on expected consumption over the next half-decade

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A report from Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) says the cost of exempting more farm fuels from carbon pricing will cost $235 million over the next five years. Conservative MP Philip Lawrence introduced a private member’s bill in February 2020 that would extend the exemption for qualifying farming fuel to marketable natural gas and propane,
Asking plants to use carbon differently than they do now might be a hard pull for both science and Mother Nature.
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Comment: Questions surround carbon sequestration

Answers are needed if markets are going to function properly

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You might not think so, if the local coffee shop is your guide, but farmers think climate change is real. In fact, notes the December 2020 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, 58 per cent of Iowa farmers and landowners now agree that climate change is both occurring and is caused by either human activity
A measure of all the pre-existing sustainability efforts and performance metrics is needed across all sectors of Canadian agriculture.
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Better benchmarking of environmental targets needed

Sustainability metrics can develop and protect markets for farmers

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Experts are calling for environmental targets to better position Canada in markets at home and abroad. Agri-Food Sustainability Targets is a report authored by David McInnes, who is working with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and others. “What’s happening globally and nationally is that there is a wholesale shift
In echos of the PFRA’s battle against Prairie desertification, Africa hopes a wall of trees will halt the march of the Sahara.
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Africa’s Great Green Wall aims for fresh growth spurt after sluggish start

Stopping the desertification of productive farmland is the goal of the program

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Reuters – Growing up in a village in Burkina Faso, Georges Bazongo remembers his parents and neighbours cutting down trees each year to expand their farmland so they could “grow enough food for our families to eat.” He also noticed some trees becoming drier in the drought-prone region, an indication too that the soil was
A changing climate could depress growth in global food production by up to 30 per cent by 2050.
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Step up adaptation to climate change now or risk ‘enormous toll’

Scientists warn of risks of ignoring issue as COVID measures cuts funding

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Reuters – More than 3,000 scientists have called for a far bigger global push to protect people and nature from the effects of a heating planet, even as researchers estimated funding to adapt to climate change has dropped because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, the scientists — including five Nobel laureates — warned
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Ag waste recycling program to become permanent

Surveyed producers pro-recycling but leery about environmental fees

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Agricultural waste recycler Cleanfarms is on its way to becoming a permanent, industry-funded program in Manitoba. This will likely mean more opportunities for producers to recycle grain bags, baler twine and other plastics. It will also mean paying for it. On November 30, Cleanfarms released a draft of its Manitoba Agriculture Plastics Plan (MAPP) and

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