New reports from Cereals Canada aim to confirm how Canada’s cereal crops, such as this one in southwestern Alberta, are among the most sustainable in the world.

Prairie cereals have reduced their carbon footprint

Farmers that grow cereal crops on the Prairies have some things to be proud of when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, report says

Reading Time: 5 minutes Canadian farmers growing crops like wheat, barley and oats on the Prairies have things to be proud of when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, report says.






Anhydrous ammonia fertilizer tanks parked on a lot in southern Manitoba. Fertilizer emissions have been one target of federal greenhouse gas policy.

Federal spending on climate change soars

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is drawing flack for the amount of funding dedicated to agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

Reading Time: 2 minutes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is drawing flack for the amount of funding dedicated to agriculturalgreenhouse gas emissions.

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Farm groups back away from Sustainable Agriculture Strategy

Organizations say they will no longer participate in strategy discussions, saying it does not align with producers' needs

Agriculture Canada says consultations on its Sustainable Agriculture Strategy will continue even after six major organizations withdrew from the advisory committee last week.



Crew members do geotechnical survey work at the future site of the Genesis Fertilizers Belle Plaine, Sask., low-carbon fertilizer facility.

Saskatchewan company pitches decarbonized fertilizer

Genesis Fertilizers says post-production carbon capture will remove carbon dioxide and send it deep underground

Reading Time: 3 minutes Genesis Fertilizers says post-production carbon capture at their incoming fertilizer plant in Saskatchewan will remove carbon dioxide and send it deep underground.