By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday February 2, 2022

Mar 2, 2022 | 10:48 AM

MELFORT, Sask. — The Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA) will look for ways to promote organic products.

The $770,000 from the Canadian Agricultural Partnership’s AgriMarketing Program will be used to create domestic and international export opportunities and promote the “Canada Organic” brand. This includes the development of market activities at major food shows in Germany and the United States with additional activities related to market accessibility and technical assessments.

COTA has developed a four-module retailer training program as well as a webinar training series on how to become export ready. It will also expand the training program to deliver sessions virtually as well as in-person to a wide stakeholder audience.

In the first two years of the program COTA has trained over 600 participants from 300 companies with estimated related sales close to $1.7 million.

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A worldwide leader in grain moisture analyzers has introduced a new grain analysis computer

DICKEY-john®, a Division of TSI Incorporated, said the new instrument provides grain moisture percentage, test weight, and temperature as well as improved user features.

The GAC® 2700-AGRI offers faster measurement time and an easy-to-use touchscreen interface while delivering elevator-like results.

DICKEY-john VP of Product Management and Marketing Ketan Mehta said the company understands the critical role grain moisture testing has in the farming sector.

“We understand the importance of getting accurate information as quickly and efficiently as possible. We believe the precision of the GAC 2700-AGRI accomplishes that goal,” Mehta said.

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The University of Saskatchewan (USask) is studying how to make use of 24 million tonnes of biomass residue from crops and forests.

USask researcher Dr. Ajay Dalai is working with Calgary-based Tidewater Renewables to develop a novel integrated process to produce renewable natural gas (RNG, also called biomethane) from the biomass.

He said the goal is to help decarbonize the heating and power production sectors by replacing non-renewable natural gas with biomethane and to help Canada transition to a low-carbon economy.

“The idea is to digest the residues from agriculture biomass to make methane,” Dalai said. “We collect the methane, take the solid and gasify to get more methane. Then we take the by-product gases from the gas we make and convert that into additional methane as well.”

Dalai said sharing the findings with other renewable energy companies in Canada to set up cost-effective biomethane plants will help them reduce carbon emissions while creating opportunities for farmers, engineers, and researchers.

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