Eight billion people now inhabit the earth
Do we have the capacity to feed them all?
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Tag: Agriculture
Research aims to boost mental health support for farmers
People who own, operate or work on a farm have higher suicide rates compared to most other occupations
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Geothermal energy could give old oil and gas wells a new lease on life
Retrofitting orphan wells to geothermally heat wintertime water for cattle
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Many dairy products have been priced out of the market
Milking Canadians is becoming harder for the Canadian Dairy Commission
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Trees near farmland pay environmental dividends
Shelterbelts and hedgerows reduce emissions of greenhouse gas by an average of 89 per cent
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Ottawa should stop stoking food insecurity
Ottawa’s taxes and regulations are driving up costs for farmers and the families that buy the food they produce
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A Farmers’ Convoy could prove fatal for Trudeau
If 200,000 truckers scared him into introducing the Emergencies Act, what will he do when 650,000 angry farmers descend on Ottawa?
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Our agri-food world is about to get a whole lot smaller
Exporting actual food products may no longer be the best option moving forward
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What’s really behind higher milk prices
The Canadian Dairy Commission is morally and ethically compromised. It needs to distance itself from the dairy sector immediately
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U of A teams up with venture capital firm to advance agricultural innovation
Partnership with SVG Ventures|THRIVE will help researchers and startups move new technologies
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Lime shows promise for controlling clubroot in canola crops
Spot-treating soil with lime could give farmers another option to stem the costly disease and improve soil health
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How to tackle climate change and boost our agri-food sector
There’s a way to reduce fertilizer use and make all agricultural production much more environmentally friendly: controlled environment agriculture
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