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SARPAL spreads to Manitoba

Sustainability: News Roundup from the April 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff May 1, 2017

Beef producers in southwestern Manitoba are front and centre in a project exploring ways to preserve or create important habitat for bird species at risk. The $750,000 SARPAL (species at risk partnerships on agricultural lands) initiative administered by Manitoba Beef Producers couples producers’ knowledge of the land and cattle with conservation specialists’ scientific knowledge of […] Read more

Palmer amaranth. (United Soybean Board photo)

Corn, Crops, Reuters

Palmer amaranth threatening U.S. corn fields

By Renita D. Young, Tom Polansek April 5, 2017

Winterset, Iowa | Reuters — A U.S. government program designed to convert farmland to wildlife habitat has triggered the spread of a fast-growing weed that threatens to strangle crops in America’s rural heartland. The weed is hard to kill and, if left unchecked, destroys as much as 91 per cent of corn on infested land, […] Read more

A young commercial date palm planting in California’s Coachella Valley. (RF Lee photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

California rules led to near 25 per cent cut in water use

By Sharon Bernstein April 4, 2016

Sacramento | Reuters –– Residents and businesses in drought-stricken California cut back water use by nearly 25 per cent from June 2015 through the end of February 2016 — enough to supply nearly six million people for a year, officials said Monday. The state’s first ever mandatory cutbacks in water use were imposed by Democratic […] Read more

Livestock, News Roundup

SSGA wildlife habitat conservation project funded

News Roundup from the February 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 12, 2016

The Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association (SSGA) received a commitment for $2.58 million in funding from Environment and Climate Change Canada to lead a voluntary, producer-driven project to conserve habitat for species at risk in Saskatchewan. The Species at Risk Partnership on Agricultural Lands (SARPAL) fund supports projects that enable famers and ranchers to preserve key […] Read more

History, Our History

History: Grass conservation and land use

Reprinted from the December 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 3, 2015

History: Grass conservation and land use By J.B. Campbell, Dominion Experimental Station, Swift Current, Sask. ‘As an introduction to this talk on “Grass Conservation and Land Use,” I wish to quote the words of a Texas shepherd. He states: “Grass is what counts. It’s what saves us all – fas as we get saved. Men and towns […] Read more

Features, Livestock

Measuring agriculture’s shadow

Conservation practices needed to improve environmental performance of livestock sector

By Peg Strankman August 22, 2014

The value of biodiversity to provide ecosystem services like pollination to agriculture is more and more recognized,” says Dr. Shannon R. White, a University of Alberta ecologist working with the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI). “Measuring biodiversity is the base for valuing the ecosystem services responsible for purifying our air and water, and ensuring the […] Read more

"We want to see a program that works for ranchers and species at risk." – Sue Michalsky, Eastend, Sask.

Features, Livestock

Fee-for-service conservation

Ranchers engineered it now they are testing it out to see how it works in the real world

By Debbie Furber August 21, 2014

It’s been 80 years since respected American professor, ecologist and author, Aldo Leopold, recognized that conservation would ultimately boil down to rewarding private landowners who preserve the public interest. The southwestern Saskatchewan ranchers who formed the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance Inc. (RSAI) in 2010 believe that day has arrived. As to how it can be done, […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures climb higher to end week

Draft ‘MAHA’ commission report avoids pesticide crackdown feared by farm groups

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans rise on short-covering ahead of weekend, crop tour

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures climb higher to end week

Draft ‘MAHA’ commission report avoids pesticide crackdown feared by farm groups

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans rise on short-covering ahead of weekend, crop tour

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SARPAL spreads to Manitoba

Palmer amaranth threatening U.S. corn fields

California rules led to near 25 per cent cut in water use

SSGA wildlife habitat conservation project funded

History: Grass conservation and land use

Measuring agriculture’s shadow

Fee-for-service conservation

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