Posted on 07/28/2022 4:22:02 PM PDT by dennisw
PM Justin Trudeau has decided to move forward with his cap on nitrogen emissions by reducing fertilizer use even as provincial Agriculture Ministers beg him to stop.
As per a Government of Saskatchewan news release, both Alberta and Saskatchewan’s Ministers of Agriculture have expressed “profound disappointment” in Trudeau’s decision to attempt to reduce nitrogen emissions from fertilizer.
“We’re really concerned with this arbitrary goal,” Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture David Marit said. “The Trudeau government has apparently moved on from their attack on the oil and gas industry and set their sights on Saskatchewan farmers.”
According to Alberta Agriculture Minister Nate Horner, “This has been the most expensive crop anyone has put in, following a very difficult year on the prairies. The world is looking for Canada to increase production and be a solution to global food shortages. The Federal government needs to display that they understand this. They owe it to our producers.”
As previously reported by The Counter Signal, in December 2020, the Trudeau government unveiled their new climate plan, with a focus on reducing nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030. That plan is now coming into effect — though the government refuses to acknowledge that nitrous oxide emissions can be reduced without drastically reducing fertilizer use and thus crop production.
“Fertilizers play a major role in the agriculture sector’s success and have contributed to record harvests in the last decade. They have helped drive increases in Canadian crop yields, grain sales, and exports,” a news release from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada reads.
“However, nitrous oxide emissions, particularly those associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use have also grown significantly. That is why the Government of Canada has set the national fertilizer emissions reduction target, which is part of the commitment to reduce total GHG emissions in Canada by 40-45% by 2030….”
This is a tacit admission that any attempt to lower admissions by reducing nitrogen fertilizer will consequently lower crop yields over the next decade, hurting the Agriculture sector and, more importantly, hurting farmers.
And indeed, according to a report from Fertilizer Canada:
Total Emission Reduction puts a cap on the total emissions allowable from fertilizer at 30% below 2020 levels. As the yield of Canadian crops is directly linked to proper fertilizer application this creates a ceiling on Canadian agricultural productivity well below 2020 levels….
It is estimated that a 30% absolute emission reduction for a farmer with 1000 acres of canola and 1000 acres of wheat, stands to have their profit reduced by approximately $38,000 – $40,500/ annually.
In 2020, Western Canadian farmers planted approximately 20.8 million acres of canola. Using these values, cumulatively farm revenues from canola could be reduced by $396M – $441M on an annual basis. Wheat famers could experience a reduction of $400M.
Moreover, Fertilizer Canada doesn’t believe that forcibly decreasing fertilizer use will even lower greenhouse gases but could lead to carbon leakage elsewhere.
Nonetheless, Trudeau’s government is moving forward, with farmer’s groups speaking to Farmers Forum now wondering if he’s intentionally trying to cause a food shortage — which Trudeau previously told Canadians to prepare for.
We have it in the US, but law and order here is dead.
I suppose that would be a great investment for them but who will buy their land when millions have starved to death?
My fertilizer stocks have been rallying because of these government attempts to limit fertilizer use.
By this time next year 100 trillion dollars will buy you a cup of joe. At McDonalds.
That is a good sign. Capitalism uber alles!
He is completely nuts. How are these leaders getting into power, and more so, how are they staying there with the decisions they’re making?
You are right. This land snatching is happening in the US too. Our media just doesn’t report it.
The regime here may go about it a little differently for now, but it is going to become apparent. Already Gates, Blackrock, even China, are buying up everything land wise. People are losing their homes, their vehicles. it is all collapsing. Which is what they want. I guess.
I am feeling a very ugly fall and winter coming.
Trudeau believes in population control. He plans to cull Canadians by starvation. The Government of Holland plans to cull the herd, animals, chickens and humans. When will Joe Biden drop the hammer on Americans?
And where is Johnnie Cougar and his “Farm Aid” pals?
“… stands to have their profit reduced by approximately $38,000 – $40,500/ annually.”
Of course, Fidel Jr. won’t ask the city people to cut their earnings by that much unless the price of power, food and shelter go up that much. Even if that happens, all government workers, which a lot, will get cost-of-living increases. Absolutely perfect situation for the type of revolution his dad pulled off.
Because it worked so well for Sri Lanka
The only way to understand and digest this is to see that all of this is being done on purpose for their idiotic tyrannical Great Reset.
Like Neil Young?
All he wanted was to bang Farmer John’s daughter.
He didn’t really care about Farmer John’s farm.
Well, an egregious POS will do what an egregious POS does.
Mandated fertilizer reductions should be followed by a food distribution reduction to ALL government employees AND to ALL environmental advocates.
Wrong. Or at least mostly. One can have loads of tilth built up and have a dry spell, then rain, and plenty of runoff. Once the soil is dry it becomes impermeable. So runoff happens. It is not simple, tho the leftards like to present it as such. Every day I wish they would go away...not sure how much longer we can farm in New England...it hurts
I decided to look him up on my puter. He looks like a freaky looking old leftist and acts like one. His latest “chime in” was about Uvalde and we need more gun control.
He sure is different than his fellow born in Seymour Indiana resident Eli Dicken. LOL
We are approaching a dangerous time. So many socialist dictatorships managed to starve to death a good portion of their population at the beginning of their rule due to ideological enforcement of farming/work policies that they knew nothing about
With all the losses in money ,food ,jobs etc the nitrous oxide emissions will not change one puff because this is all on paper only
“ Been around forever. Farmer spreads fertilizer, a surprise rainstorm comes and washes fertilizer away. It gets into streams and makes it’s way to the ocean causing algae blooms which kills fish.”
There are simple ways to mitigate this. Buffer zones on stream banks, contour and low-till plowing, and sub-surface application. These all work well, and are much better than a blanket restriction on amount used.
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