Speaker: Dr. Sara Place, Chief Sustainability Officer, Elanco Animal Health. Dr. Place discusses how grazing animals fit within a sustainable food system, covering sustainability, feed vs. food competition and climate change. This lecture was part of a series of presentations hosted by Farm & Food Care Ontario November 10, 2020, at the Royal Winter Fair Food …
Rethinking Methane: The Path to Climate Neutrality for Animal Agriculture
Speaker: Dr. Frank Mitloehner is a Professor and Air Quality Specialist in Cooperative Extension in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis. It’s crucial that we do not increase the methane we’re putting in the atmosphere. This makes it even more important to understand how methane is being measured. Could livestock …
What is an Environmental Footprint? Taking a Closer Look at Cattle Farming
Speaker: Dr Kim Ominski, Professor and Associate Head at the University of Manitoba. Dr Ominski has established a research program aimed at improving the productivity and sustainability of beef cattle production in Western Canada. This work includes identification of greenhouse gas mitigation strategies conducted in collaboration with multidisciplinary team of researchers from across Canada. This …
How Sustainability in Agriculture Starts in the Classroom
Speaker: Dr. June Matthews, PhD, RD, PHEc, Associate Professor in Food and Nutrition Sciences at Brescia College. Dr. Matthews shares her education strategies to teach university students about agriculture, about its complexity as well as the wide ranging contributions to help preserve wildlife habitats, mitigate global warming & sustain rural communities while providing abundant, safe, …
How Canadian Farmers Improve Sustainability by Building Precision Agriculture
Speaker: Clinton Monchuk, Executive Director of Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan. Clinton is a 3rd generation Canadian farmer discusses how precision agriculture has impacted the health and sustainability of today’s farms. Dirt is the life blood of all farms. Through precision agriculture, farmers know where to put what is needed, when it is needed. This …
Birds and Beef: Environmental Partnership
Speaker: Dr. Christian Artuso was the Manitoba Director for Bird Studies Canada (https://bsc-eoc.org/). Dr. Artuso is devoted to the conservation of prairie grasslands and the many species that call this ecosystem home, which includes some of Canada’s most threatened. We often hear how growing or raising our food has damaging affects on our planet, leaving …
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