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EU farmers could get cash to curb emissions from belching livestock

By GFM Network News, Kate Abnett January 15, 2021

Brussels | Reuters — Farmers should get European Union funding to reduce methane emissions from livestock or increase organic farmland, the European Commission said on Thursday, under plans to make agriculture greener. The EU is nearing the end of a two-year battle to overhaul its massive farming subsidies scheme, to attempt to align the agriculture

Keystone Agricultural Producers says new drainage regulations are just more of the same and are a "big disappointment."

Local news, News, Other

KAP unhappy with new drainage regulations

Manitoba’s general farm organization was expecting rules that would let farmers manage water better and help protect wetlands

By Allan Dawson October 10, 2019

The Manitoba government’s new drainage regulations, which came into effect Oct. 2 are a “big disappointment,” says Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) vice-president Mitch Janssens. “We were trying to convince them to dangle the carrot to create more beneficial wetlands, but also allow producers to improve their land. That’s not what we got. That’s where the big disappointment is. We

Manitoba is getting new legislation aimed at protecting watersheds in the province.

Local news, Other

Province tables Sustainable Watersheds Act

Incentives would be offered landowners who protect wetlands  and adopt other beneficial land management practices

By Lorraine Stevenson December 7, 2017

New water legislation tabled last week lays the foundation for an ecological goods and services program for Manitoba, say provincial ministers. The Growing Outcomes in Watersheds (GROW) program would offer farmers and other landowners incentives for farm practices that protect wetlands and promote better land management. It is based on the Alternative Land Use Services

News

ARBI drafting long-term work plan for Assiniboine basin

New Framework for Watershed Stewardship will help track progress

By Lorraine Stevenson December 13, 2016

The Assiniboine River Basin Initiative (ARBI) has produced a draft plan that lays out what partner organizations hope to achieve for better basin-wide management — and how to go about it. ARBI presented the draft document at its third annual general meeting here last month, asking member organizations for feedback. Called the Framework for Watershed

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

The area is being destroyed by too much water.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Whitewater Lake region under threat

Excess water covering dikes and boardwalks and burying farmland and roads

By Donna Gamache August 5, 2015

On a recent visit to Whitewater Lake in southwestern Manitoba, my husband and I were dismayed to see first hand the impact that excess water is having on the area. Years ago we made our first trip there and enjoyed walking on the long dikes and boardwalks, surrounded by a variety of water birds and

Opinion

Revenue From Wetlands

April 7, 2011

When the health of Lake Erie began to deteriorate in the 1960s, the world noticed. Its problems were visible to millions of people in two countries who live around or near that lake, and it wasn’t hard to find public support for measures to restore it to health. It’s been different for Lake Winnipeg. While

Livestock, News

Rising Waters Too Expensive To Fight

By Laura Rance-Unger October 7, 2010

Flooded ranchers and landowners around the three Shoal Lakes in the Interlake were told last week it is cheaper for governments to buy them out than come to their rescue with drainage. Area residents who packed into the community hall here had their worst fears confirmed as they learned the conclusions of a study commissioned

Opinion

The Future Is Now

By Laura Rance-Unger October 7, 2010

Tempers flared and fingers pointed as 350 residents from communities surrounding the three Shoal Lakes in the Interlake gathered in Woodlands last week. They were there to hear the long-awaited results of a study into possible solutions for an unfolding natural disaster – the seemingly unstoppable rise in lake levels that is submerging land that

Fifty-six per cent chance of more stable, ENSO neutral weather conditions in late summer and fall U.S. forecasters say

Europe’s illegal pesticide trade surges as farmers cut costs

Canada seeks pact with Southeast Asian countries to diversify trade

Daily Network News

Fifty-six per cent chance of more stable, ENSO neutral weather conditions in late summer and fall U.S. forecasters say

Europe’s illegal pesticide trade surges as farmers cut costs

Canada seeks pact with Southeast Asian countries to diversify trade

Tag Archives Wetlands — page 2

EU farmers could get cash to curb emissions from belching livestock

KAP unhappy with new drainage regulations

Province tables Sustainable Watersheds Act

ARBI drafting long-term work plan for Assiniboine basin

Floods and farms fuel jump in methane emissions — researchers

Whitewater Lake region under threat

Revenue From Wetlands

Rising Waters Too Expensive To Fight

The Future Is Now

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