A Bobolink in a southern Ontario grassland. Photo Victoria Pepe

Canada and Ontario invest $14.6M to boost farmland resiliency and sustainability

Increased funding enables the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program to expand its project scope to improve soil health, protect water resources, promote biodiversity, and support long-term sustainability and competitiveness.

Canada and Ontario increased investment of $14.6 million to help farmers improve soil, water, and biodiversity through the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program.







Aerial view of the soon to be functional green ammonia plant on R&L Acres near Sperling Manitoba.

Green, farm-produced anhydrous ammonia in the home stretch

FuelPositive’s technology will soon be producing anhydrous ammonia using water, air and hydro on a Manitoba farm

Glacier FarmMedia – After two years of delays, the world’s first on-farm green ammonia plant is weeks away from producing fertilizer. In mid-June, Ontario clean energy company FuelPositive announced that […] Read more

Canada is getting warmer and wetter, mostly in the winter and in the North, says the research lead with Agri-Food Economic Systems.

Producers’ climate change strategy: mitigate or adapt?

An economist argues Canadian farmers should be adapting to climate change rather than focus strictly on mitigation

Glacier FarmMedia – Canadian farmers could benefit from climate change, says an Ontario agricultural economist. That’s not a popular perspective, since mitigating climate change and reducing emissions from food production […] Read more