By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday February 16, 2022

Feb 16, 2022 | 10:08 AM

MELFORT, Sask. – Taking a proactive approach to managing farm risk.

Farm Management Canada has launched a risk management training program called Roots to Success.

Program manager Mathieu Lipari said farm life can be unpredictable as producers deal with weather, pests, market conditions, relationships, and more recently, COVID-19.

“Taking a comprehensive approach is vital to understanding the connection between people, profit, the planet and policy in order to create effective plans so that our farmers are better positioned to take calculated risk and seize opportunity,” Lipari said.

The training sessions allow farmers to gain knowledge of tools and resources to make better business decisions, share best practices and lessons learned with other farmers, and start the process of creating a plan tailored to their farm.

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There is series of four virtual training sessions starting Feb. 22.

To register go to the Farm Management Canada website.

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A new online tool will help Canadian egg farmers measure, monitor and manage the environmental footprint of their farm.

Egg Farmers of Canada’s National Environmental Sustainability Tool (NEST) will have farmers perform a sustainability assessment of their farm to understand key drivers of environmental performance, including energy and water use, while also exploring comparisons to farms in their region and across the country.

Egg Farmers of Canada CEO Tim Lambert said with the growing demand and uses of eggs comes the responsibility to produce eggs sustainably.

“Our nation’s egg sector and our hard-working egg farmers from coast to coast remain committed to continually improving operations and practices and why we invest in innovation and new tools like NEST,” Lambert said. “The development of NEST is part of our broader, holistic vision of sustainability.”

Lambert said egg production is emitting less greenhouse gas and using less water, land and energy than it did 50 years ago.

NEST is available to all registered Canadian egg farmers.

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