Manitoba’s farmers say carbon fees on grain drying and barn heating are cutting into their bottom line and getting in the way of efficiency upgrades, but environmental experts are warning against another hole in Canada’s flagship climate policy.
The recent flooding has plunged small farmers in sharecropping arrangements further into debt with their landlords — a cycle that has worsened as extreme weather events become increasingly common.
A cereal and beers are now being made with a new variety of perennial grain known as Kernza. Proponents say this marks a significant advance for a new agriculture that borrows from the wild prairie and could help ensure sustainable food production in a warming world.
