Keystone Agricultural Producers is looking for other commodity group partners on a soil health roundtable following Senate report calling for more action on soil health improvement.  |  File photo

KAP to pursue soil health roundtable

Keystone Agricultural Producers is looking for other commodity group partners on the conservation-based initiative

Glacier FarmMedia – Keystone Agricultural Producers plans to establish a soil health roundtable, encouraged by the recent release of a Senate report on the health of Canadian soils. The report, “Critical Ground: Why Soil is Essential to Canada’s Economic, Environmental, Human and Social Health” was released by the Senate’s agriculture and forestry committee in June. […] Read more

This Sprague’s pipit was found during last year’s Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association bird survey.  |  Cameron Meuckon photo

Bird survey focuses on regenerative farming

Manitoba initiative looks at how regenerative agriculture affects bird populations, species at risk as well as biodiversity

Bird experts across the province have partnered with the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association to conduct its second annual bird survey. Tim Poole, species at risk biologist with the provincial government, and Marissa Bedard and Meredith Stoesz from Important Bird Areas, recently wrapped up field visits to nine regenerative agriculture farms operated by members of […] Read more