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TESA 25: Bothner Ranch receives SSGA 2021 Environmental Stewardship Award

By Janet Kanters July 16, 2021

The Environmental Stewardship Award (TESA) celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Since 1996, TESA has been recognizing beef producers from across the country who go above and beyond standard conservation practices to care for their land and environment. Each year, producers are recognized at the regional level. A national TESA winner is then chosen from […] Read more

EU flags in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. (Jorisvo/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Reuters, Weather

EU countries approve deal to overhaul farming subsidies

Subsidies to focus on sustainability, 'eco-schemes'

By Kate Abnett, GFM Network News June 28, 2021

Brussels | Reuters — European Union countries on Monday gave the green light to reforms of the bloc’s huge farming subsidy program, after a three-year battle over rules to make it greener and support smaller farms. Negotiators representing the EU’s 27 countries and European Parliament struck the deal on Friday to reform the Common Agricultural […] Read more

CCA reports, News

CCA reports: Being part of the climate change solution

From the June 2021 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Bob Lowe June 11, 2021

As we look to the future, we know that our industry has an important role to play in being part of the solution for climate change. That’s why, building on the five-year goals that were outlined in the 2020-24 National Beef Strategy, the Canadian beef industry has now identified a suite of ambitious 10-year goals […] Read more

CCA reports, News

CCA Reports: Leading the conversation on environment

From the April 2021 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Bob Lowe April 13, 2021

When I walk around the hilly countryside of our family ranch southwest of Calgary and watch the spring thaw melting away winter’s grip, I always think of this time of year as a new beginning. The time has never been more right to start anew and tell our good-news story of modern cattle production. There […] Read more

A coal mine in a mountain area of Alberta.

News

Selenium from open-pit coal mining may pose downstream risk to ag

Potential of selenium pollution in Alberta’s major watersheds a threat to agriculture and others downstream, say livestock nutritionist and conservationist

By Piper Whelan April 8, 2021

The effects of selenium pollution in rivers near open-pit coal mines can be felt hundreds of kilometres downstream, says a conservation organization. In studying the impacts of open-pit coal mining in B.C.’s Elk Valley, Lars Sander-Green has seen how selenium leaching from four metallurgical coal mines contaminated the local drinking water supply and devastated fish […] Read more

Climate change is a real problem that we’ll all have to deal with, one way or another.

Comment

Comment: The problem or the solution?

By Lisa Guenther April 6, 2021

March saw a flurry of press releases and articles related to climate change, the environment and agriculture. Notably, the Weston Family Foundation allocated $25 million to preserving grasslands over the next five years (see News Roundup). A pilot project for a carbon offset protocol that encourages grassland retention is also underway. This carbon offset protocol […] Read more

When you have a lot of standing water on land you can bet you’ll have a lot of mosquitoes, and it’s hard to find a better control for these blood-sucking pests than the dragonfly.

From the Ground Up, Livestock

Building biodiversity on agricultural lands

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

By Steve Kenyon March 31, 2021

Nature works in whole systems. There are millions of symbiotic relationships that coexist in a single ecosystem. Yet every ecosystem also interacts and relies on the other ecosystems around it. The aquatic ecosystem has a dynamic interaction with the riparian area ecosystem which interacts with the uplands ecosystem which relates to the woodland ecosystem. We […] Read more

News

CCA welcomes continued Environment and Climate Change Canada funding for species at risk

Previous project covered over 189,000 acres in Alberta

By Canadian Cattlemen’s Association March 18, 2021

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is pleased to announce the contribution of $1.27 million from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) in additional funding to continue species at risk stewardship activities through the Species At Risk Partnership on Agricultural Lands (SARPAL) initiative. The contribution allows the CCA to carry on conservation activities with beef producers […] Read more

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Livestock, Reuters, Weather

EU farmers could get cash to curb emissions from belching livestock

By Kate Abnett, GFM Network News 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 […] Read more

Woodjam Ranch is located next to the Horsefly River, in the Cariboo region of British Columbia.

Beef Cattle, Features, Livestock

B.C. ranchers honoured for protecting watersheds

The Seelhof family works hard to protect the river and tributaries that run through their ranch, as well as manage invasive species and rotate grazing and feeding grounds

By Kelly Sidoryk November 23, 2020

In a truly strange set of circumstances, when Chad Seelhof heard about the BSE announcement, he was in a cattle liner about to relocate from Paradise Hill, Sask., with his parents Louis and Ellie, to the Cariboo region of British Columbia. Chad recalls hearing the report on a radio broadcast. “I really wondered what the […] Read more

Hemp industry looking forward despite hurdles

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures gain

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans lower on the week

GFM Network News

Hemp industry looking forward despite hurdles

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures gain

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans lower on the week

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TESA 25: Bothner Ranch receives SSGA 2021 Environmental Stewardship Award

EU countries approve deal to overhaul farming subsidies

CCA reports: Being part of the climate change solution

CCA Reports: Leading the conversation on environment

Selenium from open-pit coal mining may pose downstream risk to ag

Comment: The problem or the solution?

Building biodiversity on agricultural lands

CCA welcomes continued Environment and Climate Change Canada funding for species at risk

EU farmers could get cash to curb emissions from belching livestock

B.C. ranchers honoured for protecting watersheds

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