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Canadian farmers and ranchers are planning the future with less carbon – and making it work

photo credit: Eminetracanada.com
photo credit: Eminetracanada.com

Launcher John Cross is frank about what climate change predictions mean for his family. “My children can’t live a better life than I do.”

 by Monica Kidd – Eminetracanada.com

 

Cross owns the A7 Ranch, a 5,260-hectare office west of Nanton, Arta, at the foot of the Livingstone Mountains. AE Cross, one of Calgary’s famous “Big Four” cowherds who founded Calgary Stampede, his grandfather, started the ranch in 1886.

The Cross family has paid much attention to the weather over the years, but last year’s extreme situation introduced new terms such as “heat dome” and “atmospheric river” to local lexicons. Did. A second year of drought occurred in Alberta, leading to poor crop crops and high animal feed costs. The floods wiped out the Kokihara Highway in British Columbia.

Cross is currently training his family to take over the A7. He is changing the way he works because he wants to see them succeed.

 
“Meat needs an entire industrial zone to support it, while pasture cattle need a complex ecosystem that also provides environmental services to mitigate climate change
Monica Kidd is a writer, physician and fellow at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana Global Journalism Fellowship.
 
 

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