Potential for U.S. Agriculture to Be Greenhouse Gas Negative
Carbon is the foundation for agricultural products beginning with the conversion of carbon dioxide into sugar through the process of photosynthesis and ultimately converted into compounds that are harvested through grains, fruit, vegetables, nuts, and fiber and animals convert into meat, milk, eggs, or wool. Carbon dioxide is released back to the atmosphere through processes […]
Supporting Ontario Farmers to Advance Best Nutrient Management Practices
The below is taken from the Executive Summary of the report “Ontario Farmers for Agricultural Conservation: An NFU-O Report & Survey on Advancing Best Nutrient Management Practices”. Farmers care about agricultural conservation. Over three quarters of the 246 Ontario farmers who took part in this NFU-O survey believe they have an important role to play […]
Farmers are the Key to Addressing the Climate Crisis
From coast to coast, Canada is bracing for another record year of climate chaos. “Zombie wildfires” are still burning from last year’s record fire season and governments are still accounting for the billions of dollars in payouts to farmers for losses due to last year’s flooding and droughts. Evidence suggests Canada will continue to experience […]
New Dairy Concept: A More Sustainable Future for American Dairy
This article was originally published on the Healing Our Waters – Great Lakes Coalition’s website and is republished here with permission. Credit: New Dairy Concept/Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship An integral part of the New Dairy Concept is a method of raising livestock called regenerative managed grazing, in which cows graze on grassy pastures in rotating paddocks […]
The Global Importance of Regenerative Agriculture
Nearly 40% of land use across the globe is dedicated to one thing: agriculture. So, it makes sense that an equally large amount of our natural resources, freshwater in particular, is also dedicated to agriculture and crop growth. Agriculture has been the source of some of humankind’s most defining inventions and innovations, changing entire societies […]
From Field to Bin: The Environmental Impacts of U.S. Food Waste Management Pathways
Over one-third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten, wasting the resources used to produce it – and much of it is sent to landfills, where it breaks down and generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Wasted food is the single most common material landfilled and incinerated in the United States, comprising […]
Protecting the Great Lakes: The Imperative of Recycling Agricultural Plastics
When the topic of plastic pollution arises, images of bottles, straws, and bags in our oceans often come to mind. Yet, plastic pollution is not exclusive to marine environments; freshwater sources, notably the Great Lakes, are similarly under threat. While the vast majority of shoreline plastic pollution is made of common consumer items like those […]
Canadian Agri-Food Resilience
The following is the Introductory Section of the report ‘Canadian Agri-Food Resilience: A Toolbox for Managing Crises’, commissioned by The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute and funded in part by the Government of Canada under the Canadian Agricultural partnership’s AgriRisk Initiatives program. Reposted with permission. After reading the article below, gain more insight into the report, […]
Climate Change is Altering What We Grow and What We Eat.
I grew up on a small Wisconsin dairy farm. It was small — one cow — but she supplied our milk and butter. It meant that as a kid, every morning and eve, I cleaned stalls and fed the farm’s menagerie of pigs, horses, cats, dogs, heifers, calves, and that one cow. I milked her […]
Food Waste Management at Meijer
The Issue Food waste goes far beyond banana peels and the moldy mystery leftovers tossed from the back of the fridge. Much of the food that’s wasted is behind the scenes — out of the eyes of the average consumer. Based on a 2022 McKinsey & Company publication, 33 percent to 40 percent of the […]