Sustainable agriculture in Northeast Sask AND Canada-Japan ASF agreements

Visitors from across Canada and Switzerland travelled to Northeast Saskatchewan to learn more about sustainable agriculture practices. The group, Nature United, is the Canadian affiliate of The Nature Conservancy, a global conservation organization with more than a million members.Kris Babbings, the president of Collective Impact, lead the tour.He talks about the importance of how the tour gave the guests a perspective of why some agricultural practices are done the way they are.ANDManitoba's pork producers are welcoming Canada’s new African Swine Fever zoning agreement with Japan.The Government of Canada and the Government of Japan have announced an agreement on the mutual recognition of containment zones in the event of an outbreak of ASF, an internationally reportable disease that has devastated swine herds around the world.Cam Dahl, the General Manager of Manitoba Pork, says the detection of ASF in Canada would be catastrophic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.