Insights and Stories on Environment

Growing grass crops to capture carbon

Nov. 3, 2023 at 9:48 am CDT

Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and organic matter (carbon) in our soils are topics of great current interest. Two big questions that take up much ink these days are: 1) how can we emit less CO2 with farming practices and 2) how can we sequester more carbon (C) in […]

Researchers want producers to plant more peas

Sep. 22, 2023 at 9:41 am CDT

By Jeff Melchior

U.N.-backed investors set fresh targets in sustainable food shift

Oct. 27, 2022 at 8:40 am CDT

By Simon Jessop

One-third of China’s land protected under ecological ‘red line’ scheme

Sep. 19, 2022 at 6:51 pm CDT

By Reuters

What will King Charles’s reign mean for climate action?

Sep. 9, 2022 at 4:48 pm CDT

By Jack Graham

Indigo Ag to roll out first tranche of farm soil carbon credits

Jun. 29, 2022 at 9:13 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. farm technology firm Indigo Agriculture on Wednesday said its carbon farming program has produced 20,000 tonnes in soil carbon credits that it will sell as emissions offsets to buyers including JPMorgan Chase JPM.N, Barclays BARC.L and The North Face. They are the first agricultural soil […]

By Karl Plume

EU countries approve deal to overhaul farming subsidies

Jun. 28, 2021 at 5:46 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters — European Union countries on Monday gave the green light to reforms of the bloc’s huge farming subsidy program, after a three-year battle over rules to make it greener and support smaller farms. Negotiators representing the EU’s 27 countries and European Parliament struck the deal on Friday […]

By Kate Abnett

EU farmers could get cash to curb emissions from belching livestock

Jan. 14, 2021 at 6:41 pm CST

Brussels | Reuters — Farmers should get European Union funding to reduce methane emissions from livestock or increase organic farmland, the European Commission said on Thursday, under plans to make agriculture greener. The EU is nearing the end of a two-year battle to overhaul its massive farming subsidies scheme, to […]

By Kate Abnett

EU plans to halve pesticide use, expand organic farming

May. 22, 2020 at 10:04 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters — The European Commission said on Wednesday it planned to increase organic farming and cut agricultural chemical use to protect the environment, proposals welcomed by green groups but which farmers said would make them less flexible. Agriculture is a contributor to climate change – producing around 10 […]

By Kate Abnett Marine Strauss

New chief acclaimed for national cattle producer group

Mar. 26, 2018 at 8:24 pm CDT

A former president of the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association is the new president of the national cattle producers’ body. David Haywood-Farmer was elected by acclamation as president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association at the group’s annual general meeting last week in Ottawa. Haywood-Farmer, a cow-calf producer at Savona, B.C., about 40 […]

By Staff

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