2023

Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Ontario: A Comprehensive Assessment
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Ontario: A Comprehensive Assessment

This report presents a single detailed picture of nearly all sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Ontario agricultural production and production of associated farm inputs. Ontario has the most

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2023 Winners
2023 Winners

Ellis Hamm has spent the last seven years alternating between small-scale, regenerative agriculture in the summer, and working with people in schools and churches in the winter. They reside in

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Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Saskatchewan: A Comprehensive Assessment
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Saskatchewan: A Comprehensive Assessment

Saskatchewan is central to Canadian agriculture, with roughly 40% of Canadian cropland, 20% of the Canadian cattle herd, and 20% of gross farm income. Saskatchewan also makes up roughly 30%

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Union Farmer  Fall ’23 | Union Fermière : Autumne ’23
Union Farmer Fall ’23 | Union Fermière : Autumne ’23

Contents: To read the full document, please click “Download the pdf”. The edition is primarily in English, with excerpts in French.

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Union Farmer Newsletter: September 2023
Union Farmer Newsletter: September 2023

In this issue: “Let them eat concrete” Ontario’s farmers are fed up with the Greenbelt giveaways Farmers unite to defeat Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) unfair change to grading standards NFU

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Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada: Third Edition
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada: Third Edition

The most detailed report of its kind, Agriculture Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada: A Comprehensive Analysis (3rd Edition) subdivides Canadian agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and soil-carbon changes into 42

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18 Reasons Why Agricultural Soil Carbon Offsets are the Wrong Approach to the Climate Crisis, and What We Should Do Instead
18 Reasons Why Agricultural Soil Carbon Offsets are the Wrong Approach to the Climate Crisis, and What We Should Do Instead

In this bold and blunt 17-page report the National Farmers Union (NFU) in 18 concise points, we expose the false solutions— that offset protocols, offset projects, and emissions trading are ineffectual, illegitimate, and damaging. The NFU urges the Canadian government to shelve plans for soil-based offset protocols. With sound research, the NFU provides the clear reasoning as to why offsets are ineffective. This then informs the ten policy recommendations that could address the climate crisis while simultaneously providing real, meaningful change for farms and farmers. 

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Canadian Agriculture: The Challenge of Achieving Authentic Sustainability
Canadian Agriculture: The Challenge of Achieving Authentic Sustainability
How provincial rules help or hinder regional meat production

On December 12, 2022, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, announced the beginning of a process to create a Sustainable Agriculture Strategy (SAS). Agriculture and Agri-Food

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Guidance to providing your input to AAFC’s Sustainable Agriculture Strategy
Guidance to providing your input to AAFC’s Sustainable Agriculture Strategy

The NFU has created a guideline for how you might want to respond to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) questionnaire towards developing a 25-year Sustainable Agriculture Strategy. Use this as

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Sustainable Agriculture Strategy—8 Things You Need to Know
Sustainable Agriculture Strategy—8 Things You Need to Know

The federal government and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) have initiated a process to develop a 25-year Sustainable Agriculture Strategy (SAS).  The NFU is one of 21 organizations on the

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Union Farmer Winter ’23 | Union Fermière : l’hiver ’23
Union Farmer Winter ’23 | Union Fermière : l’hiver ’23

NFU’s 53rd convention a success. Resolutions. New Board. Presidential Updates. Sustainable Agriculture Strategy. Farm worker organizing. New! Films About Farming: 40 Films about Farming. And more! To read the full

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Union Farmer Newsletter: February 2023
Union Farmer Newsletter: February 2023

In this issue: Advocating for farmland protection in Ontario Towards a National Agricultural Labour Strategy that works for Farmers and Farm Workers Public transit should not stop at the city

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