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Editor’s Rant: Lights out

Thoughts on green policy-making ahead of Justin Trudeau's departure

By Dave Bedard January 30, 2025

Up on the shelf where we keep light bulbs of assorted sizes and wattages, I just happened across an old compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) — remember, those bulbs that looked like an Arby’s curly fry wrapped in thin white glass? Talk about a relic from a bygone time in western civilization when, it seemed, the […] Read more

Parliament Hill, in Ottawa – Ontario, Canada. Photo: Ulysse Pixel

News

Federal government extends On-Farm Climate Action Fund

By Jonah Grignon January 29, 2025

The On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) will be extended to provide an additional $300 million over the next three years, the federal government announced this week.

Livestock

Efficiency called key to reducing beef industry carbon footprint

Focus on improving production efficiency around the world, not eating less meat says JBS scientist

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan January 29, 2025

Efficiency is key when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the beef sector said Sarah Klopatek at the Saskatchewan Beef Industry Conference on January 29 in Saskatoon, Sask.

News, Reuters

Netherlands ordered by court to slash nitrogen emissions by 2030

A Dutch court ordered the government on Wednesday to drastically cut nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands by 2030, in a ruling that could hurt construction and will pressure farmers to reduce livestock.

By Bart H. Meijer, Reuters January 22, 2025

A Dutch court ordered the government on Wednesday to drastically cut nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands by 2030, in a ruling that could hurt construction and will pressure farmers to reduce livestock.

Equipment, Machinery, Trucks and UTVs

Kenworth to limit availability of manual transmissions

Emissions limits require the brand to impose auto transmissions on most buyers

By Scott Garvey January 17, 2025

Back in the day, truck drivers were often referred to as gear jammers, because they would have to manually shift their way through 10, 13, 15 or more gears. That moniker seems to have faded into history, and one reason may account for that more than any other: industry figures estimate 90 to 95 per […] Read more

Livestock, News, Reuters

Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was ‘never a promise’

By Luciana Magalhaes, Reuters, Simon Jessop, Stefanie Eschenbacher January 15, 2025

The world's largest meatpacker, JBS, became in 2021 the first of its peers to commit to cutting or offsetting all its emissions by 2040, and to ending illegal deforestation across its long supply chain that starts in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

News, Reuters

Syngenta working with McDonald’s to reduce gas emissions from cows

By Reuters November 14, 2024

Agrochemicals and seeds company Syngenta is working with fast food giant McDonald's Corp and one of its meat suppliers to supply a type of corn which it says will reduce the gaseous emissions from cattle.

News, Reuters

World will miss Paris climate target as nitrous oxide rises, report says

N2O emissions are driven primarily by agricultural fertilizer and manure

By Reuters, Valerie Volcovici October 31, 2024

Failing to curb emissions of nitrous oxide will make it impossible to meet the main goal of the Paris climate agreement to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the first major global assessment of the pollutant released on Thursday.

News, Reuters

Canada’s agricultural policies are falling short of health and sustainability goals

By The Conversation via Reuters Connect October 17, 2024

Canada's current agricultural policies are not serving the well-being of the public. Canada's agricultural program payments and subsidies are not aligned with the government's dietary guidelines and health goals.

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: Nitrogen fertilizer. Where from here?

A look at emissions

By Les Henry May 2, 2022

Nitrogen fertilizer is much in the news this winter with the feds talking about seriously reducing its use to save the planet. This piece appears here at this time because I have just read Kevin Hursh’s March 1, 2022, column in The Western Producer with headline, “Have your say on reducing fertilizer emissions.” He makes […] Read more

GFM Network News

Selling GMO tomato seeds to Canadian gardeners ‘reckless’ say advocates

U.S. grains: Wheat recovers on short covering, soy continues to fall

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures lower on falling beef prices, selling

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Editor’s Rant: Lights out

Federal government extends On-Farm Climate Action Fund

Efficiency called key to reducing beef industry carbon footprint

Netherlands ordered by court to slash nitrogen emissions by 2030

Kenworth to limit availability of manual transmissions

Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was ‘never a promise’

Syngenta working with McDonald’s to reduce gas emissions from cows

World will miss Paris climate target as nitrous oxide rises, report says

Canada’s agricultural policies are falling short of health and sustainability goals

Les Henry: Nitrogen fertilizer. Where from here?

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