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Opinion: Ongoing evolution necessary in farming

By David Rourke January 23, 2018

Not only are farmers being trusted to look after the land, crops and animals, we also want to do the best possible job ourselves. The problem is we don’t always have the clearest picture of what the best practices really are, and we of course operate within the confines of present technology and profitability. Take

Premier Brian Pallister has announced his government's made-in-Manitoba carbon plan.

Local news, Other

Manitoba carbon plan targets lower rates

The provincial plan calls for a $25 a tonne flat carbon tax that won't rise to the $50 a tonne called for by the federal government

By Allan Dawson October 27, 2017

Manitoba’s Made-in-Manitoba flat $25 a tonne carbon tax will not rise to $50 a tonne as called for under the federal government’s plan. The proposal also exempts farm fuel, as reported last night by the Manitoba Co-operator. Read more: Farm fuel to be exempt from Manitoba carbon tax Read more: Legal opinion backs Pallister’s approach to

Over 1.3 billion tonnes of food waste are created globally each year. A new process promises to make converting it to fertilizer and fuel more efficient in cold climates.

Did you know?, News

Cold-loving bacteria turns food waste into energy and fertilizer

Canada’s frigid winters have always limited  using natural processes to convert waste

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 12, 2017

Researchers from Montreal’s Concordia University say they’ve found a way to process waste into resources in colder climes. They’re using cold-tolerant bacteria to fuel the process. In a study published in the journal Process Safety and Environmental Protection, authors Rajinikanth Rajagopal, David Bellavance and Mohammad Saifur Rahaman demonstrate the viability of using anaerobic digestion in

Climate change-fuelled drought could hit U.S. yields hard this century, researchers say.

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Climate change is poised to hit U.S. harvests

The latest models suggest many key crops could suffer  significant yield losses in the coming decades

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 30, 2017

Dutch researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change have published a paper in the journal Nature that says U.S. crop yields could be hard hit as the world warms. To better assess how climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions will likely impact wheat, corn and soybean, an international team of scientists ran

Weather

Last five years were hottest on record

By Alister Doyle, GFM Network News November 8, 2016

Morocco/Reuters – The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are stoked by man-made climate change, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Some freak weather events would have happened naturally but the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said greenhouse gas emissions had

The Paris Agreement seeks to phase out greenhouse gas emissions this century. Photo: Thinkstock

Weather

Ignoring Trump, UN talks seek to turn climate pledges into action

By Alister Doyle, GFM Network News November 7, 2016

Morocco/Reuters – Almost 200 nations began work on Monday to turn promises for fighting climate change into action at a UN conference that played down threats to a 2015 global agreement if Republican Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidency. At the start of two-week talks in Morocco, many delegates wore badges with a smiling picture

Wetland expansion due to heavier rainfall seems to be fuelling higher methane emissions, along with agricultural activity.

News

Floods and farms fuel jump in methane emissions — researchers

Microbial sources of methane emissions are seen as the most likely source and are common to wetlands and farming

By Megan Rowling, Reuters October 19, 2016

A sharp increase in methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in the Earth’s atmosphere since 2007 is the result of higher emissions from biological sources such as rice paddies, cattle and swamps rather than fossil fuels, researchers recently announced. Methane traps heat, contributing to global warming. In 2014 the growth rate of methane in the atmosphere

Local news, Weather

Carbon pricing coming to Manitoba: KAP wants farmers’ input to get best plan

Teleconference and webinar starts at 8 a.m. Oct. 4

By Allan Dawson September 30, 2016

Carbon pricing, which is aimed at mitigating climate change, is coming to Manitoba and the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) want farmers’ input on how it should be done. To that end KAP has organized a conference call and webinar for farmers Tue. Oct. 4 at 8 a.m. to learn more about options and to hear

Research at the University of Illinois simulates future atmospheric conditions to determine their effects on plants. Here, Professor Andrew Leakey (r), works with research assistants Lindsey Heady and David Marshak.

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Study says CO2 benefit of global warming overestimated

While higher CO2 levels can mean greater growth it appears they also set plants up to be more susceptible to drought losses

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 19, 2016

An eight-year study suggests talk of higher yields under a global warming scenario may be overly optimistic. University of Illinois researchers grew soybeans in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere and they say their findings are worrisome. Under ideal growing conditions higher CO2 will boost plant growth, but an article in the journal Nature Plants suggests drought,

A supercomputer-modeled simulation showing the expected impact of global warming on Earth’s surface temperatures. (Photo courtesy NASA)

Crops, Weather

Man-made warming dates back almost 200 years, study says

By Alister Doyle, GFM Network News August 25, 2016

Oslo | Reuters — Man-made greenhouse gases began to nudge up the Earth’s temperatures almost 200 years ago, as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace, far earlier than previously thought. Greenhouse gas emissions from industry left their first traces in the temperatures of tropical oceans and the Arctic around 1830, researchers wrote in a recent journal

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

Tag Archives Greenhouse gases

Opinion: Ongoing evolution necessary in farming

Manitoba carbon plan targets lower rates

Cold-loving bacteria turns food waste into energy and fertilizer

Climate change is poised to hit U.S. harvests

Last five years were hottest on record

Ignoring Trump, UN talks seek to turn climate pledges into action

Floods and farms fuel jump in methane emissions — researchers

Carbon pricing coming to Manitoba: KAP wants farmers’ input to get best plan

Study says CO2 benefit of global warming overestimated

Man-made warming dates back almost 200 years, study says

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