The Holos model is a software application that uses data entered by producers to build a model farm. Then, it estimates greenhouse gas emissions, as well as soil carbon changes that occur on the operation. The main goal of the model is to identify how emissions can be decreased. | Screencap via YouTube/UM - Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Ag Canada updates software that estimates emissions

Producers can input beef production information and pasture data to learn how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Agriculture Canada is updating the model that farms and ranches can use to estimate agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. The Holos model has been around since 2008, and its most current model, version four, since 2020, but the fifth version is now in development. At the Sustainability of Canadian Agriculture Conference, hosted by the University of […] Read more

Melissa Arcand, a soil biogeochemist and professor at the University of Saskatchewan, teaches in the Kanawayihetaytan Askiy program, which trains students to work in resource and land management in Indigenous communities. Arcand is a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation.   |  Michelle Berg/University of Saskatchewan photo

Indigenous stewardship model urged

Glacier FarmMedia – In scientific and conservation terminology, “ecosystem services” refer to the benefits that wetlands, diverse plant and animal life and wild spaces provide to society. For Indigenous peoples, those things are gifts, an audience was told during the Sustainability of Canadian Agriculture Conference in mid-March. The virtual conference was co-hosted March 12-14 by […] Read more