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Canada’s ag output seen likely rising under climate change

By MarketsFarm Team September 18, 2018

CNS Canada — A new United Nations report suggests just how climate change will reshape agriculture by 2050 — and that Canada’s production capacity stands to benefit. International trade will play an ever-larger role in helping to feed people in food-deficient regions, as warmer temperatures and less precipitation will damage yields in many tropical areas, […] Read more

One study estimated that 30 million tonnes of greenhouse gases are released each year when grasslands are converted to crop production.

Beef Cattle, Livestock, News

Cattle versus climate: Where’s the beef?

Livestock production’s environmental impact is complicated but if done right,  it’s good for the planet, says author

By Jennifer Blair August 3, 2018

It’s become accepted wisdom that cattle production is worse for the environment than gas-guzzling SUVs — but it’s not true. “We’re told over and over again that cattle are bad for the environment and, therefore, everybody should eat less beef,” said Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production. “We’re […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

VIDEO: The battle of the belch: cutting methane from cattle

By Reuters December 12, 2017

Scientists in Scotland are investigating ways to cut the amount of methane emitted by cattle, paving the way for the breeding of low-emission livestock. Matthew Stock reports for Reuters.

Features, Forages, Livestock

Drilling down on carbon sequestration

New 10-year study looks for a more accurate formula to calculate the carbon-swallowing value of native grass

By Debbie Furber April 17, 2017

Ranchers in all three Prairie provinces are taking part in a decade-long study to assess the cumulative effect of different grazing systems on carbon sequestration and other ecological benefits from a working ranch. In each province, 10 pastures managed under adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing systems for at least 10 years will be paired with neighbouring […] Read more

Reuters, Weather

Last five years were hottest on record

By alister-doyle November 8, 2016

Morocco/Reuters – The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are stoked by man-made climate change, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Some freak weather events would have happened naturally but the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said greenhouse gas emissions had […] Read more

Reuters, Weather

Ignoring Trump, UN talks seek to turn climate pledges into action

By alister-doyle November 7, 2016

Morocco/Reuters – Almost 200 nations began work on Monday to turn promises for fighting climate change into action at a UN conference that played down threats to a 2015 global agreement if Republican Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidency. At the start of two-week talks in Morocco, many delegates wore badges with a smiling picture […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Man-made warming dates back almost 200 years, study says

By alister-doyle August 25, 2016

Oslo | Reuters — Man-made greenhouse gases began to nudge up the Earth’s temperatures almost 200 years ago, as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace, far earlier than previously thought. Greenhouse gas emissions from industry left their first traces in the temperatures of tropical oceans and the Arctic around 1830, researchers wrote in a recent journal […] Read more

Beef Cattle

Holos — a farm tool to assess GHG emissions from beef production

Software aims to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farms

By Peg Strankman June 19, 2015

Assessing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from beef production using the Holos software was the focus of a third annual Holos workshop, held recently in Airdrie, Alta. GHG emissions and carbon footprints are a major focus within the industry today as consumers demand information about how their food is produced. A concern that this growing pressure […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Ottawa’s new GHG goal eyes fertilizer, chem sectors

By Staff May 16, 2015

The federal government’s new target, to cut the country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels in the next 15 years, will involve new regulations on fertilizer and chemical companies’ output. Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced the government’s new target and general plans on Friday in Winnipeg, but hasn’t yet specified […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Research

Hot air doesn’t just come from cattle

Not all science is good science, and sometimes good journals can publish bad science

By Reynold Bergen September 26, 2014

In late July, a very popular and well-respected scientific journal called Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published “Land, irrigation, water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States” (PNAS 111:11996-12001). The authors, a physicist from Bard College in New York, a physicist and a graduate […] Read more

Consultations begin online for replacing Alberta’s Bill 6

Alberta to lengthen public leases for ‘exemplary’ ranching

Cargill shuts China feed mills as swine fever spreads

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