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For most farms and businesses, improving energy efficiency and reducing energy consumption and costs is a priority. By identifying and implementing energy savings management strategies, farms have the opportunity to reduce input costs and their carbon footprint. A...
Three innovative rural farm families from Saskatchewan have developed a unique safety device that will improve farmyard safety for their children and other farm families. “We saw a product similar to this device in Europe, however, when we investigated the possibility...
With 30 years of fish farming experience and several innovations and awards behind him, Mike Meeker of Meeker’s Aquaculture continues to look for improvements and ways to reduce risks in his operation. Meeker farms on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Ontario producing...
Several research projects under the BC Future Forest Ecosystems Scientific Council (FFESC) are focusing on the adaptation of the forest and range management framework to climate change. “As part of a larger FFESC project, we are looking at possible ways of...
A new project launched in April 2011 at the University of Regina will study how climate change will impact the Prairies, especially the agricultural and Indigenous communities. This five-year project, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)...
DARTMOUTH, N.S. – Growing up in Chicago, Illinois, Jean Snow would hardly have seen herself becoming a leading urban market gardener in Eastern Canada in later years. Yet that’s exactly what happened. “I had no agricultural background,” says...
