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Comment: The smokescreen of COP28

The global climate change event is the world’s biggest green mirage

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Its official name is the United Nations 28th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, or COP28 for short. Given the news from the two-week gathering in the desert near Dubai, a better name might be “Shifting Sands, Shifting Blame.” For example, “A staggering 88,000 people are accredited” to attend the meeting, financial magazine Barron’s
Two farmers talking in a field.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Farmers the victims of food company decarbonization

Farmers are bearing the brunt of big food companies’ decarbonization efforts. Here’s why

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More than a third of the global greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activity can be attributed to how we produce, process and package food, so it comes as no surprise that many large food-producing and retailing companies are under pressure from investors, politicians and environmental groups to clean up their operations. Several leading fast-food
Cattle cross into a paddock with fresh forage within Ted Unruh’s rotational grazing system near Cromer, Man.
Beef cattle, Livestock

Turning back the clock with grazing

Cattle can help fill the biodiversity void left from the loss of bison

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Cattle are often maligned for their contributions to greenhouse gas levels, but Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Tim McAllister says that’s wrongheaded. “We hear about people advocating for the need to eliminate livestock from agriculture production, basically without really understanding the negative connotations that would have,” the researcher said during a University of Manitoba webinar in August. “We really need to be
The federal government has not announced a mandated reduction in use of nitrogen fertilizer.
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Wheat Growers take new shot at federal fertilizer policy

The federal government wants a 30 per cent reduction in emissions from fertilizer, but says it is voluntary

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The Wheat Growers association says claims that the federal government is threatening to force a 30 per cent reduction in nitrogen fertilizer use, published in a newsletter aimed at consumers, was meant to prove a point. “We aren’t really exaggerating,” said Wheat Growers president Gunter Jochum. “I felt they were not exaggerating because of the government’s track record.” Why
(Dave Bedard photo)
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NFU report adjusts sequestration, fuel emissions numbers

Uncertainty about absolute numbers isn’t the same as uncertainty about trends: author

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Canadian agriculture is sequestering more carbon than originally thought, but it’s also burning more diesel fuel, according to a new report from the National Farmers Union. In August, the NFU released the third edition of its Agriculture Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada report. It reflected updated information from the latest national inventory that the federal government released this year. Why it matters:
“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)
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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

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