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The 2030 Canadian Beef Goals Panel from the Canadian Beef Industry Conference in Pentiction, B.C. Brenna Grant is third from left.
Features, Livestock

2030 Canadian Beef Goals highlight carbon emissions

Unpacking the carbon emission goals, the ongoing research and what it all means for Canada’s beef producers

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On a stage with the lights dimmed, Brenna Grant sits with several other industry professionals, looking out on a room full of people. From all over the country, they’ve met in Penticton, B.C., to discuss the future of their industry at the Canadian Beef Industry Conference. One of those possible futures is encompassed in the […] Read more
U.S. special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry and Agriculture Sectretary Tom Vilsack applaud U.S. President Joe Biden’s speech at the COP27 climate summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on Nov. 11, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
General, Reuters, Weather

Farm climate innovation commitments at COP27 double to US$8 billion

Agriculture could outpace other industries to net zero: Vilsack

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Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt | Reuters — An initiative led by the United States and the United Arab Emirates to help agriculture adapt to climate change and reduce emissions through innovation has doubled investment commitments to US$8 billion and extended its reach, it said on Friday. The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) was […] Read more
Cover crops, including radish, have grown increasingly popular across Canada.
Forages, News

Farmers for Climate Solutions pilots mentorship programs

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Farmers for Climate Solutions, a national coalition of farmer-led and farmer-supporting organizations, launched a mentorship program in 2022. Also known as FaRM, they offer three learning streams on the topics of advanced nitrogen management, advanced grazing systems and cover cropping. Cedric MacLeod with the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association (CFGA) says a few people at […] Read more
Wrecked structures float in the water in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona at Rose Blanche, N.L., about 45 km east of Port aux Basques, on Sept. 25, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/John Morris)
General, Reuters, Weather

After Fiona, climate experts urge Canada to fix flagship adaptation strategy

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Reuters — Canada’s first national climate adaptation strategy needs to be improved to include near-term targets and specific solutions ahead of its November release to mitigate worsening global warming impacts, experts advising the government told Reuters in the wake of devastation caused by storm Fiona. Fiona, one of the worst storms to ever hit Canada, […] Read more
File photo of greenhouse food production systems in British Columbia. (KarenMassier/iStock/Getty Images)
General

B.C. to back Indigenous food system projects

New program taking applications starting Monday

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A new British Columbia program will provide up to $80,000 each for projects in agriculture, food processing or other sectors to improve food security in that province’s Indigenous communities. The province on Wednesday rolled out a new Indigenous Food Systems and Agriculture Partnership Program, which is set up to take applications starting Monday (Sept. 26) […] Read more
Prince Charles (now King Charles III) visits Shane Fitzgerald’s Kil Mige Mogue farm near Waterford in southeast Ireland on March 24, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Phil Noble/Pool)
General, Reuters, Weather

What will King Charles’s reign mean for climate action?

Some projects may be handed to other family members

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London | Thomson Reuters Foundation — As Britain’s King Charles III begins his reign after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, environmental campaigners will be watching closely to see if he continues to advocate for climate action and is able to help drive change as monarch. In his first speech to the nation […] Read more
‘We doubt these bureaucrats knew enough to comprehend this rule’s demands on agriculture. They certainly don’t understand weather and the cattle business.’ – Steve Dittmer.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

Dittmer: Woke and green turns ridiculous

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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In the spring of 2021, we wrote columns for Agribusiness Freedom Foundation chronicling the activist left’s progress in cowing major U.S. corporations into “woke” philosophies, including those on animal welfare, green climate change theology, apologies for so-called racist pasts, offending gender identities and lots of irrelevant or downright obstructive actions, to corporations making money. With […] Read more
Internally displaced Ethiopians queue to receive food aid in the Higlo camp for people displaced by drought, at the town of Gode in Ethiopia’s Somali region on April 26, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)
Crops, Reuters, Weather

Acute food insecurity now touching 345 million worldwide

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Baghdad | Reuters — The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Before the coronavirus crisis, 135 million suffered from acute hunger worldwide, Corinne Fleischer, the WFP’s regional […] Read more
Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil on Aug. 14, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)
General, Reuters

Market value alone is selling nature short, governments told

Economic valuations needed but 'not sufficient,' co-chair says

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Reuters — What is the value of a river? Is it for the nutritional content of the fish it sustains? The economic benefit of the local livelihoods it supports? Or does the river have its own value which humans cannot measure? Such questions may seem removed from the issues the world faces, from deepening climate […] Read more

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