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What is adaptive management?

By Angela Lovell January 10, 2019

Adaptive management has probably been taking place as long as human beings have been around. Just about everyone can be given a recipe or a method to do something but often they find they need to adapt that recipe or those instructions to fit their own situation. They may have to substitute recipe ingredients they

Chef Jonathan Collins cuts up a pork leg, foot included, to prepare ginger and black vinegar hog trotters in a video for Canada Pork International. (Video screengrab from CanadaPork.com)

Hogs, Livestock

Pork producers tackle new challenges, opportunities in 2018

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News April 9, 2018

CNS Canada — Pork producers in Western Canada are still grappling with old problems even as new opportunities present themselves in the export market, according to presenters at the Manitoba Pork Council’s annual general meeting Thursday in Winnipeg. Canadian pork exports in 2017 totaled 1.29 billion tonnes to a tune of $4 billion. On its

Hogs, Local news

Door opens to hog expansion

Anaerobic digesters out, new barns in

By Shannon VanRaes November 10, 2017

New hog barns will be built Manitoba. After an all-night session at the Manitoba Legislature, Bill 24 has passed its final reading and received royal assent. Better known as the Red Tape Reduction and Government Efficiency Act, Bill 24 covers legislation ranging from consumer protection and labour relations, to residential tenancies and transportation of dangerous

The Manitoba Canola Growers Association thinks an opportunity could exist for canola producers to sell their product into the biodiesel market.

Local news

Carbon tax could translate into more demand for canola

By Allan Dawson November 9, 2017

“Nobody like taxes… but there is also going to be some opportunities,” as a result of Manitoba’s climate and green plan, Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) president Chuck Fossay told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ advisory council Nov. 2. While the plan includes a flat $25-a-tonne carbon tax starting sometime next year, it also says if

New research may be paving the way to more efficiently converting biomass like cornstalks into biofuels.

Did you know?, News

Cutting the cost of ethanol

Researchers devise a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 16, 2017

Biofuels like ethanol could get cheaper if new research from Rutgers and Michigan State universities holds up. Scientists there have demonstrated how to design and genetically engineer enzyme surfaces so they bind less to cornstalks and other cellulosic biomass, reducing enzyme costs in biofuels production, according to a study published in the journal ACS Sustainable

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Biofuels fight

By Gord Gilmour February 23, 2017

[Updated March 2, 2017]: What would a world with another five billion bushels of corn on the market look like? I am willing to bet that the grain growers among our readership just felt a small blood pressure spike at the very thought, anticipating dramatically lower crop prices. That figure represents the portion of the

Duelling biofuel reports paint a very different picture of the impact of biofuel mandates.

News

Former environmental official defends biofuels

A former Ontario official is taking on financial heavyweights in a new report

By Alex Binkley February 22, 2017

Former Ontario environment commissioner Gord Miller is taking on some financial heavyweights in his ongoing defence of government support for biofuels. In a report called Staying the Course, Miller blasts the Ecofiscal Commission, an economics think-tank, for calling for an end to the federal and provincial biofuel mandates because they’re too costly for the environmental

The U.S. renewable fuel standard is just one of many things on hold as the new U.S. administration takes power.

News

In Trump freeze, U.S. agencies delay rules affecting farms

The move creates an air of uncertainty surrounding key provisions, such as the U.S. renewable fuel standard

By Chris Prentice, Tom Polansek February 8, 2017

U.S. regulators under the new presidential administration have instituted a freeze on rules key to the country’s Farm Belt, agricultural groups said Jan. 26, heightening uncertainty for some of the regions that helped propel Donald Trump into office. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will delay implementation of this year’s biofuels requirements along with 29 other regulations

News

Ottawa needs to get serious about encouraging renewable fuels

A constantly churning industry with various provincial standards  isn’t a good foundation for growth, proponents say

By Alex Binkley January 25, 2017

If the federal government wants to see renewable fuels attracting investment and growing, it needs to set a national standard and provide stability. That’s according to Warren Mabee, public policy professor at Queen’s University, speaking at the Renewable Fuels Canada Forum, held recently in Ottawa. Sticking with the existing provincial standards means every province goes

Hogs, News

Old is new in hog barn approvals

Public opposition has not gone away after a decade of no development

By Ron Friesen January 5, 2017

The first application under a new protocol for approving hog barns in Manitoba has run into an old problem: local opposition. The Rural Municipality of Oakview council last month turned down an application for a 6,000-space feeder/finish operation near Rivers even though a technical review committee report said it met the necessary requirements. Council gave

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

Tag Archives Sustainable development

What is adaptive management?

Pork producers tackle new challenges, opportunities in 2018

Door opens to hog expansion

Carbon tax could translate into more demand for canola

Cutting the cost of ethanol

Editorial: Biofuels fight

Former environmental official defends biofuels

In Trump freeze, U.S. agencies delay rules affecting farms

Ottawa needs to get serious about encouraging renewable fuels

Old is new in hog barn approvals

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