Glacier FarmMedia – Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries is partnering with Manitoba Habitat Conservancy to offset some of the Crown agency’s carbon emissions. The arrangement will see the agency contribute $72,300 to the non-profit Grassland Stewardship Agreements project, and used to cover the infrastructure costs of fencing for Ritchie Bison and their neighbour, Brian Powell, near […] Read more
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Sask. company pitches decarbonized fertilizer
Post-production carbon capture will remove carbon dioxide and send it deep underground: company
Corporate backers of a planned fertilizer plant in Saskatchewan say they will one day sell fertilizer with lower greenhouse gas output than is usually associated with synthetic fertilizer production. The plant, to be built in Belle Plaine in central Saskatchewan, is the brain child of Saskatoon’s Genesis Fertilizers and CARBONCO, a South Korea-based Total Solution […] Read more
JBS taps SAF sector
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) — Brazilian meat packer JBS is supplying animal waste from its operations abroad for the production of renewable aviation fuels and is studying a similar initiative in Brazil through the Friboi brand. The company said 1.2 million tonnes of beef tallow and pork lard from its units in the United States, […] Read more
VIDEO: Myths swirl around livestock sector
If animal nutritionists don’t want to see their industry ravaged by misperceptions and misinformation, they might need to embrace what is an uncomfortable place for most of them, says a leading British nutritionist. If they can’t engage with the public on issues about feed’s and livestock’s effects on climate change and environmental degradation, then the […] Read more
Farmers deserve zero-till recognition
Saskatchewan farmers sequestered 12.8 million tonnes of carbon in their land in 2020 due to zero-till practices. That’s more than any other province in Canada. It’s about the same as taking 2.78 million cars off the road for a year. This is a direct quote from the Sustainable Saskatchewan campaign launched by the Saskatchewan government […] Read more
Boeing high on renewable aviation fuel potential
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says renewable jet fuel produced from canola oil cuts emissions by 59 to 67 percent
Sustainable aviation fuel is by far and away the most effective carbon emissions mitigation tool, reducing emissions by 55 percent.
