(Alice McFarlane/farmnewsNOW Staff)

By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup

Agriculture Roundup for Monday October 7, 2019

Oct 7, 2019 | 10:14 AM

Canada’s beef industry has set some lofty goals with its National Beef Strategy.

It was developed by the seven national beef organizations which make up the Canadian Beef Advisors and is approved by provincial partners.

Beef Advisors Chair Anne Wasko said the targets fall under the categories of beef demand, competitiveness, productivity and connectivity.

One of their goals is to reduce the industry labour shortage by 50 per cent.

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The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has set out it plan for the next four years.

NCC will receive funding through the Natural Heritage Conservation Program worth $100 million for conservation programs.

The group will partner with other land conservation organizations, including Ducks Unlimited, to meet their goal of 500,000 acres of conservation lands across Canada.

NCC Vice President Jeniffer McKillop said grasslands are important for carbon storage and in dealing with greenhouse gas emissions.

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A Canadian researcher who co-led a study that challenges advice to limit meat consumption has responded to criticisms he should have disclosed past ties to the global meat and food industry.

Dalhousie University’s Bradley Johnston said he followed the disclosure rules of the Annals of Internal Medicine which published the work Sept. 30.

Those rules required the report’s panel of 14 researchers from seven countries to reveal outside funding received within three years.

The Halifax professor and epidemiologist said the last time he received money from the International Life Sciences Institute was almost five years ago and that he has cut all ties since.

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