ICYMI: 'Crop yields will suffer': Fertilizer reduction targets pitting farmers against federal government
Agriculture Canada has maintained that reducing nitrous oxide emissions associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use is necessary to achieve net-zero by 2050 and wants their levels reduced 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030. However, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business came out against the proposal last week and wants to ensure that emission reduction targets for farmers remain voluntary.
The CFIB said that in a recent survey, nearly three-quarters of farmers said that crop yields and overall food production will fall if they are forced to reduce their use of nitrogen fertilizer.“Coupled with rising costs and labour shortages, they are wondering how they’re going to continue saving the world,” Brown said.
The federal government bases its emission models on how many tonnes of fertilizer are sold throughout Canada each year. This is a bad metric, Leguee said, because farmers often end up using less fertilizer than they purchased.The only way a reduction in fertilizer use would work is to know what emissions are on every farm and every field in Canada. “We are nowhere near having that level of data,” Leguee said, adding it will take many years and a lot of money to get there.
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