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.

奥尔兹学院（阿尔伯塔）自1999年以来一直是应用研究领域的领导者，开展以市场为中心的项目，以加强农业、园艺、土地和环境管理方面的创新。奥尔兹学院畜牧生产TAC旨在提高生产效率和环境可持续性。ARTP项目旨在提高牧场的生产力，优化支持替代放牧做法的工具/技术，将利用TAC研究专业知识，在两个首要主题下促进植物多样性，提高土壤健康和牛的营养：1.提高牧场生产力和环境可持续性2。提高碳监测技术，以增加获得碳信用计划不断上升的生产成本迫使小牛生产者不断提高效率。由于饲料占养牛成本的70%，在同样数量的土地上生产更多的草料（饲料）可以增加利润。作为传统肥料的环保替代品，一种名为植物生长促进细菌（PGPB）的土壤添加剂在初步研究中表现良好，将牧草产量提高了约100%，并改善了牧草质量和土壤健康。PGPB将与建立高豆科牧草林作为提高牧草生产力的工具一起进行评估。阿尔伯塔大部分的天然草原都有管理不善和过度放牧的历史。轮牧可以成功地支持牧场恢复活力，促进土壤中的碳捕获，这是环境保护的一个胜利。TAC将验证两种用于访问碳抵消计划的技术。第一个项目将测量由于改善放牧管理而导致的土壤碳变化，为进一步发展这项技术提供必要的数据，并使牧场主能够因采用有助于在土壤中储存碳的做法而获得补偿。第二个项目将远程核查放牧做法。一家航空航天公司将利用新的光学技术和小型卫星从太空提供图像。这项研究将使中小企业能够校准和验证一种专有算法，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前往现场的昂贵依赖。奥尔兹学院很高兴能与四个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，并提供有影响力的结果，加速合作伙伴走向创新商业化。