Enhancing climate change resiliency and environmental sustainability of the livestock industry through the use of innovative technology and rotational grazing practices

通过使用创新技术和轮牧实践，增强畜牧业的气候变化抵御能力和环境可持续性

• 批准号: CCB21-2021-00637
• 负责人: Thompson, Sean
• 金额: $ 16.03万
• 依托单位: Olds College
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Technology Partnership Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=765933
• 关键词: Enhancing; climate; change; resiliency; environmental

Olds College (Alberta), a leader in applied research since 1999, carries out market-focused projects to enhance innovation in agriculture, horticulture, land and environmental management. The Olds College TAC for Livestock Production aims to advance production efficiencies and environmental sustainability. ARTP projects to improve productivity of grazing land and optimize tools/technologies that support alternative grazing practices will draw on TAC research expertise to boost plant diversity, enhance soil health and cattle nutrition under two overarching themes:1. Improve pasture productivity and environmental sustainability2. Validate carbon monitoring technologies to increase access to carbon credit programsRising production costs force cow-calf producers to continually increase efficiency. As feed accounts for 70% of the cost of raising cattle, producing more forage (feed) on the same amount of land can increase profits. As an environmentally sound alternative to conventional fertilizer, a soil additive called plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) performed well in preliminary studies, increasing forage production by approximately 100% with added benefits of improved forage quality and soil health. PGPB will be evaluated alongside the establishment of a high legume forage stand as tools to increase pasture productivity. Large portions of Alberta native grasslands have a history of poor management and overgrazing. Rotational grazing could successfully support pasture rejuvenation and promote carbon capture in the soil-a win for the environmental. TAC will validate two technologies for accessing carbon-offset programs. The first will measure changes in soil carbon as a result of improved grazing management, providing necessary data to further develop this technology and enable ranchers to be compensated for adopting practices that help store carbon in soils. The second will remotely verify grazing practices. An aerospace company will provide imagery from space using novel optical technology and small satellites. This research will allow the SME to calibrate and validate a proprietary algorithm to remotely verify grazing practices, a process that will reduce costly reliance on carbon credit program inspectors to travel to sites. Olds College is excited to work with four Alberta-based SMEs to address overgrazed pastures in Western Canada and deliver impactful results that accelerate partners toward innovation commercialization.

自1999年以来，奥尔兹学院（Alberta）是应用研究的领导者，从事市场为基础的项目，以增强农业，园艺，土地和环境管理的创新。牲畜生产的奥尔兹学院旨在提高生产效率和环境可持续性。 ARTP项目旨在提高放牧土地的生产率并优化支持替代放牧实践的工具/技术，将利用TAC研究专业知识，以提高植物多样性，在两个总体主题下增强土壤健康和牛的营养：1。提高牧场生产率和环境可持续性2。验证碳监测技术，以增加获得碳信用计划的机会，从而迫使牛牛奶生产商不断提高效率。由于饲料占饲养牛的成本的70％，因此在相同数量的土地上产生更多的草料（饲料）可以增加利润。作为传统肥料的环境替代方案，一种称为植物生长细菌（PGPB）的土壤添加剂在初步研究中表现良好，增加了大约100％的草料生产，并增加了提高草料质量和土壤健康的好处。 PGPB将与建立高豆类饲料摊位一起评估，作为提高牧场生产率的工具。艾伯塔省土著草原的大部分地区的管理史和放弃了过度的历史。旋转放牧可以成功地支持牧场恢复活力并促进土壤中的碳捕获 - 环境胜利。 TAC将验证两种用于访问碳替代程序的技术。第一个将衡量由于放牧管理的改善而导致土壤碳的变化，提供了必要的数据以进一步开发这项技术，并使牧场主能够通过采用有助于将碳存储在土壤中的实践来得到补偿。第二个将远程验证放牧做法。一家航空航天公司将使用新颖的光学技术和小型卫星提供空间的图像。这项研究将使中小型企业能够校准和验证专有算法以远程验证放牧做法，这一过程将减少对碳信用计划检查员的昂贵依赖，以便前往网站。奥尔兹学院（Olds College）很高兴与四个总部位于艾伯塔省的中小企业合作，以解决加拿大西部过度放牧的牧场，并提供有影响力的成果，以加速合作伙伴的创新商业化。