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Range management for the bird and the herd

By Alexis Stockford, Manitoba Co-operator, November 6, 2018

The Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) wants more of its members to get worried about birds.

About 27 producers, and 17,000 acres, have signed on so far with MBP’s SARPAL pilot in its first year of implementation. SARPAL (Species at Risk Partnerships on Agricultural Lands), an initiative by Environment and Climate Change Canada to tie farmers with conservation projects protecting species at risk, got another foothold in Manitoba in 2017 with the MBP program. SARPAL promised $750,000 over three years for producers in southwest Manitoba to protect grassland birds.

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Posted November 15, 2018


 

Grain Maturity for Swath Grazing: ADOPT Field Day

December 5, 2018

Clavet, SK

Attend this one day event at the Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence to learn about grain maturity for swath grazing: increasing winter grazing days. Learn about the ADOPT project design. Hear from researchers Dr. Greg Penner and Dr. Bart Lardner on the topics of determining optimal maturity at harvest, impacts of delayed maturity on beef cattle performance and more.

To view the poster click here. Please RSVP to Kerry Lowdnes at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 306-460-4987.

Posted November 9, 2018


 

Carbon Pricing

October 23, 2018

Today, the Government of Canada announced further details on the federal carbon pollution pricing backstop: https://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2018/10/23/government-canada-fighting-climate-change-price-pollution.

In October 2016, the Prime Minister announced the Pan-Canadian Approach to Pricing Carbon Pollution (the federal benchmark), which gave provinces and territories the flexibility to develop their own carbon pollution pricing system and outlined criteria all systems must meet to ensure they are stringent, fair, and efficient. The federal government also committed to implement a federal carbon pollution pricing system (the federal backstop) in provinces and territories that request it or do not have a carbon pollution pricing system that meets the federal benchmark.

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Posted October 24, 2018


 

CEC receives a submission on hydraulic fracturing

Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)
Montreal, October 9, 2018

On 3 October 2018, a resident from the municipality of Los Ramones in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico (the “Submitter”) filed a submission with the CEC Secretariat, asserting that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce environmental laws with respect to hydraulic fracturing operations which are now causing harm to the health and the environment of the local residents.

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To learn more about the CEC's Submission on Enforcement Matters, view this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdWH950zoeY&feature=youtu.be

Posted October 11, 2018


 

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