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“There’s a lot that we can do to provide support to producers who are willing to try things ... and I think that there’s a lot of ground to be gained.” – Aaron Knodel.
Beef cattle, Livestock

Low emitting cow-calf farms move in step with profitability

The variability of the cow-calf sector means there are many levers to pull to increase financial, environmental sustainability, says researcher

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A study benchmarking cow-calf profitability against greenhouse gas intensity suggests profitable farms tend to have lower emissions, but there’s a lot of room to work on both sides of the equation. “There’s a lot that we can do to provide support to producers who are willing to try things … and I think that there’s
Marl Creek Renewables.
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Biogas can meet rural energy needs

Proponents say government needs to stop insisting on electrification

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Glacier FarmMedia – The landscape for renewable natural gas production on Canadian farms is getting bigger, but provincial and federal governments must stop thinking of the fuel in the same way as they do for natural gas derived from fossil fuels. That was the take-home message from a group of panelists representing the agriculture sector
Survey to flesh out Canadian canola storage
News, Oilseeds

Survey to flesh out Canadian canola storage

The University of Manitoba hopes the survey will provide a full picture of on-farm realities

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Researchers from the University of Manitoba want to hear all about canola storage on your farm. A survey, also posted through the Canola Council of Canada’s Canola Watch, aims to provide better data on how farmers store the oilseed, how they dry it, the storage and drying issues they face and how they try to solve those problems. Why
Opinion: Net zero could be change catalyst
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Net zero could be change catalyst

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As keynote presentations go, the kick-off speaker’s at a conference on the sustainability of Canadian agriculture hosted March 7 by the University of Manitoba was a bit of a downer — at least initially. Henry Janzen, a career Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientist with who now serves as an honorary research associate with the department’s
Corn seedlings in southern Ontario in 2021. (Farmtario photo by John Greig)
News

Net-zero farming requires wide social buy-in

A systemic re-think of farming is needed to reach net zero emissions by 2050, but impetus and support must come from without, not just within

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A “durable” net zero farming system may be unattainable without a broad re-think of the sector, and that will require broad social buy-in, says an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researcher. “This is a much bigger question than simply developing practices and encouraging adoption,” says Henry Janzen. “This involves the rest of us.” Janzen, a soil
The goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a global movement, and from government to industry it’s been adopted as the path forward.
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The net-zero movement is unstoppable, but farmers will adapt

Reducing emissions is possible; the key is persuading Ottawa to chart a sensible course, says farm leader

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Glacier FarmMedia – Keep calm, stay flexible and farm on. These were the main messages from a panel on greenhouse gas emissions at the recent CrossRoads conference. Canada, and every member of the G7 and 120 other nations, has committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, the manager of government and policy relations for
German plans to end crop-based biofuels would hit farmers
Markets, News

German plans to end crop-based biofuels would hit farmers

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Any German government plans to stop crop-based biofuel production would severely hit farmers and cut rapeseed output, Thomas Mielke, CEO of Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World said Feb. 1. Smaller crushings of oilseeds in Germany would lead to a widening of the domestic protein deficit for animal feed and require increased imports of soybeans and
Crops capable of fixing their own N from the atmosphere avoid the issue of nitrous oxide emissions altogether.
Crops, News

Plant pulse crops for lower emissions

More pulses? Less nitrous oxide: Avoid the emissions problem altogether by growing more nitrogen-fixing crops

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Mario Tenuta, a soil science professor at the University of Manitoba and research chair in 4R nutrient management, wants to see more nitrogen-fixing legumes in Prairie field crops. After all, one way to avoid nitrous oxide emissions is planting crops that need little or no commercial nitrogen. “When any form of nitrogen is added to
Joel Williams says there’s a middle ground emerging around soil health.
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Bridging the sustainability gap

The ESR framework is a good starting point to nibble away at regenerative agriculture

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With the rising costs of inputs and more scrutiny of nitrogen emissions, farmers could find the ESR framework a useful tool to transition to a less intensive, less input-dependent model. ESR stands for efficiency, substitution and redesign. The framework was developed in Australia in the 1990s as a method to move from input-intensive conventional agriculture to a more ecologically based form
The 4R strategy can reduce emissions but other changes will be needed too.
Crops

No consensus on 30 per cent emissions target

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Agronomists agree that 4R agricultural practices can take a bite out of nitrous oxide emissions, but exactly how big a bite depends on who you ask. Central to this question is the federal government’s target for a 30 per cent reduction in nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions on farms by 2030. Fertilizer emissions are a relatively

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