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Green report card for western Canadian crops
Growing grain in Western Canada is getting "greener". A new sustainable agriculture report, released at the GrowCanada Conference 2011 in Winnipeg, shows that Western Canadian farmers are producing more grain with less impact on the environment.
The Sustainable Agriculture Metrics for Western Canadian Field Crops project looked at two decades of progress on sustainability indicators including land use, soil loss, energy use and climate impact. It followed a similar approach developed by Field to Market, the Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture in the U.S. but was tailored to fit with Western Canadian geography and climatic conditions, as well as the data available in Canada.
Application of Sustainable Agriculture Metrics to Selected Western Canadian Field Crops (5 MB)
