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Syngenta Canada worked in collaboration with Future Transfer to add electric trucks to its logistics transportation fleet. From L to R – John Lansink, managing director, Future Transfer; Chan Perera, president, Future Transfer; Jose Nucci, head, production and supply, Syngenta Canada; and Trevor Heck, president, Syngenta Canada.
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Syngenta Canada adds electric trucks to logistics transportation fleet 

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Syngenta is the first agricultural company in Canada to add electric trucks to its logistics transportation fleet. The company announced Jan. 18 that a fleet of electric trucks will be delivering crop protection and seed products with zero CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) emissions in 2024. Syngenta Canada is working in collaboration with supply chain partner Future Transfer, and […] Read more
Editorial: Greater collaboration is necessary
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Editorial: Greater collaboration is necessary

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As a new year begins, it’s a time to reflect on what happened the previous year, and set goals for the coming year. For some, that means setting personal goals like losing weight, eating healthier, exercising more, spending more time with family, or planning some travel, for example. For farmers and those working in the […] Read more
Benjamin Buechner, of John Deere, and Laurine Hetterscheid, of Dairy Data Warehouse, talked to farmers about the Milk Sustainability Centre at Agritechnica in November.
Dairy, Forage and crops, Milking equipment, News

Milk data project brings field and barn numbers together

John Deere and DeLaval are the first partners in the Milk Sustainability Centre

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Two large industry players have come together to create a way for dairy farmers to consolidate data across their entire operations. John Deere and DeLaval have created the Milk Sustainability Centre, which will bring data from dairy farmers for evaluation and decision-making around sustainability impact and efficiency. Why it matters: The Milk Sustainability Centre system […] Read more
Rashmi Prakash is the founder of Aruna Revolution. The company won the $45,000 Green Pursuit award for its development of menstrual products from compostable fibres.
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Turning food and farm byproducts into compostable fibres

Company is using the fibres to create more sustainable menstrual products

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A Canadian start-up that makes compostable fibres out of farm and food byproducts has won The Green Pursuit, a national sustainability and innovation challenge hosted by Dairy Farmers of Canada and Bioenterprise Canada. Why it matters: The global menstrual product market, estimated to be a $67.8 billion industry, is an opportunity to provide women with […] Read more
VIDEO: Ontario company offers award-winning Clēan
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VIDEO: Ontario company offers award-winning Clēan

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Winning an award for environmental sustainability has to make for a nice feel-good moment when showcasing new technologies, and this was exactly what Clēan Works was awarded at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show this past summer. The Ontario-based company has designed the Clēan Flow System, a process that kills more than 99 per cent of pathogens […] Read more
Agriculture can be a geopolitical lever and significant asset for Canada on the world stage.
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Canadian agriculture’s impact can be greater here and globally

Government and business need to fund the sector beyond the current focus on carbon

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A focus on carbon as the major driver of change in the agriculture and food system is too narrow and excludes other major issues in the sector. A panel of agriculture thinkers and researchers pointed to water demand, biodiversity, productivity and economic and social sustainability as areas that are neglected due to the single-minded focus […] Read more
While the United States maintains a comprehensive general plan for its agriculture sector, the Canadian agriculture sector currently has no such plan.
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Needed: a long-term vision for Canadian agriculture

Greater collaboration, consultation, and issue ownership required to manage major disruption, says report

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What does Canada’s agriculture and food sector need to do to insulate itself from major disruptions? According to the latest Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) report “A Toolbox for Managing Crises,” farmers, federal policy makers, and everyone in between needs to stop working in isolation to extinguish individual fires, and adopt a more dynamic approach […] Read more
Are yield and sustainability natural enemies?
Crops, News

Are yield and sustainability natural enemies?

For the farmer, maximizing production might not be the best strategy

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Productivity has long been the main focus of agricultural research in Canada – more bushels of grain, more pounds of beef, more litres of milk, all in aid of competitiveness and profitability. Now there’s a new research priority on the block: sustainability, which often clashes with the deeply held belief that yield should dominate. In […] Read more
Christoph Siebert
Crops, Machinery

German farmers use innovation to help meet sustainability targets

The European Union has set some tough targets in its Farm to Fork strategy

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Sustainable production is the latest focus in agriculture as countries around the world look for ways to deal with climate change. The European Union’s Farm to Fork strategy, for example, spells out ambitious goals for sustainable food production. Among its targets by 2030 are reducing chemical pesticide and antimicrobial use by 50 per cent and […] Read more
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock

Funding set to improve Ontario deadstock removal, disposal

Application intake open as of Sept. 21

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Ontario’s livestock producers could see more and improved options for pickup and sustainable disposal of deadstock through a new federal/provincial program now on offer. The Ontario and federal governments on Thursday opened the intake for applications under what they’re calling the Increasing Deadstock Capacity Initiative, budgeted for $1.5 million over two years. The program, to […] Read more

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