Feds should align fertilizer plan with farmers’ needs

As farmers, we have been working towards more sustainable fertilizer practices for more than a decade—long before anyone thought about telling us how to do it.

Farmers are skeptical about Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau’s assertion the government does not want to limit fertilizer use and is looking at a voluntary target to reduce emissions from on-farm fertilizer use, writes Andre Harpe. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDRE HARPE

September 12, 2022

You may have heard the buzz lately. There has been a lot of talk about emissions, environmental impact, and what the future looks like with a changing climate. As chair of the Grain Growers of Canada, the past few weeks have been dominated by conversations about the Government of Canada’s plan to ...

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