Translation of "agricultural streambank conservation program " (English → French) :

Considers that rural development policy and the integration of environmental protection into the EU agricultural sector must be reinforced; judges, however, the Rural Development Fund insufficient to finance biodiversity and wilderness conservation in terms of resources and its programming and expertise;

Senator Gustafson: Honourable senators, I was just handed a news release by our leader stating that the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture today introduced a new farm bill that retains most of the current subsidy system and offers new conservation programs for farmers.

Such programs as the national soil conservation program, the sustainable agriculture green plan program, the permanent cover program, and our new national soil and water conservation program have all focused on encouraging farm production management practices that either directly or indirectly mitigate the effects of production on greenhouse gas emissions.

Over the coming planning period we will see a number of deliverables in this area, and I'll list a number of examples: completion and publication of a report on the health of our atmosphere—this is a companion report to one you've seen before called Health of our Soils; transfer of the Plant Gene Resources Centre to Saskatoon; registration of a high-protein soybean variety for eastern Canada with significant yield to improvement; registration of prairie spring wheat with significant improvement in protein content; development of new anaerobic digestion technology to handle manure in an environmentally sustainable manner; development of technologies to improve ruminant nutrition—this again has efficiency and waste reduction objectives; ...[+++] development of processes for extracting food or feed additives from various agricultural products; increased access to safe, reliable water supplies for rural areas; maintenance of biological diversity through sustainable management of federally controlled and private range lands; development of a prairie-wide assessment for land-based issues facing the agriculture and agrifood sector; implementation of the national soil and water conservation program; implementation of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's biodiversity strategy; determination of the environmental sustainability of the departmental policies and programs; periodic assessment and reporting of the progress in implementing the department's sustainable development strategy, which is essentially the implementation of the action plan under that strategy; and development and implementation of the department's hog environmental management strategy, HEMS.