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L to R: Emma Epp, second vice-president of ESCIA, Chad Quinlan, Walther Quinlan and Michael Dick, agriculture technician with ERCA. Quinlan Farms received the 2022 Conservation Farm of the Year Award, given jointly by the ESCIA and ERCA.
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Quinlan Farms wins Essex conservation award

Award given for investments in soil and water health, production diversity

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The Essex Soil and Crop Improvement Association (ESCIA) and Essex Region Conservation Authority (ERCA) recently bestowed the 2022 Conservation Farm of the Year Award to Quinlan Farms, a mixed crop, […] Read more
‘Policymakers, private businesses and producers will need to collaborate in new ways as we pursue a national strategy designed to support farmers…’
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How to expand production and slash emissions

A recent report concludes that carbon sequestration is the key to producing more crops while reducing greenhouse gases

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Glacier FarmMedia – Canadian farmers can play an even greater role in the global food powerhouse while reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions, a team of economists and analysts argues in […] Read more
Simon Stiell, the United Nations’ executive secretary of framework convention on climate change, speaks at the closing plenary at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt Nov. 20.
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Food systems must transform: COP27

Climate change meeting emphasized the need to look at specific production systems

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Glacier FarmMedia – Feeding eight billion people requires transformation of food systems, delegates to COP27 heard. Four initiatives to do that were announced at the most recent climate change conference […] Read more
Meetings such as the COP27 raise topics on how to combat greenhouse gas emissions, but context is needed on how much particular sectors of agriculture and other industries contribute to the problem.
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Opinion: Cows, oil and elephants

Livestock’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions needs to be put into context

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More than 30,000 people met recently in Egypt for the 27th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP27) to deal with what many consider to be the single biggest challenge […] Read more
A University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist argues that every tonne of produced grain removes 1.65 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which would mean Canadian grain production has a much bigger role in the equation than current policy reflects.
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Economist sounds alarm over carbon reporting

Prof draws attention to how policy is affected by ignoring the carbon sequestration value of grain production

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Glacier FarmMedia – Agricultural economist Richard Gray says the worldwide carbon accounting system used to plan grain policy is flawed because it fails to properly include how grain stores and […] Read more
The author looks at what we’ve learned about pesticides and the environment in the six decades since publication of the book that changed how the world sees nature.
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Opinion: Hearing the Silent Spring 60 years on

A reflection on what we’ve learned about pesticides since publication of the bestseller

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In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a bestselling book that asserted that overuse of pesticides was harming the environment and threatening human health. Carson did not call […] Read more