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.
But Trudeau said they held “unacceptable views”. How did he get elected?
I guess Canadians are fine with the leadership of a murderous tyrant.
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.
The reason it washes away is because farmers till and till some more until their soil tilth is gone and soil life is dead and it can’t soak up water. Regenerative farming is starting to overcome that bit it’s in it’s infancy.
Now what doesn’t make much sense is getting rid of cattle. Cattle farmers don’t till the soil and don’t use much fertilizer. Cattle graze on mostly native grasses in areas that are not good enough for crop land.
One thing I read about the Netherlands situation is that they’re claiming cow burbs release ammonia which is a supposedly greenhouse gas. I guess they gave up on cow farts and evidently the tens of millions of bison, buffalo and similar large ruminants that roamed the earth a few hundred years ago didn’t burb or fart.
Turdeau is a lunatic.
It’s gotta’ be easy to dump this tyrant . . . why haven’t they?
Farmers need to harvest just enough for their own communities and plow the rest under. Let the cities freeze and starve.
Tells you everything you need to know about the pathetic, timid, docile, compliant sheep up there.
Canada is an ungovernable country. Don't beg. Just ignore the jackass. You're men, ain't you?
They need to call upon the Canadian truckers again, to do exactly what PM Castreau demands: Move several hundred cubic yards of high-nitrogen fertilizer--such as fresh cow manure--from the far reaches of rural Canada to surround the Prime Minister's official residence and grounds. That will keep it out of the hands of those selfish farmers.
Tell them your asking price is 100 trillion dollars. 😀😂
And the Cuckservative Party will go along with the Liberal plan.
Man if you all hate RINOS (like I do), we need to thank God we don’t have to put up with the Cuckservative Party of Canuckistan.
“That’s not the way it supposed to be, they are supposed to serve the people”
People in other countries don’t think that way. They don’t think like we do about free speech or gun rights, either.
Paraphrasing but I think Trudeau said, “You country bumpkins don’t know nuthin ‘bout no farmin’ and my “experts” with agricultural college degrees tell me you don’t need no fertilizer to grow crops”.
“Turdeau is a lunatic.”
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Correction: He is a Communist.
Good, this will help him become even more hated...he literally can’t walk anywhere public in Canada safely he is that hated....all for this GD climate mirage and arbitrary emission caps set in Davos or some such thing.
I have wonder that also. When did the discussion of fertilizer and climate change occur?
Is any decision maker in Canada aware of what happened to farm output in Sri Lanka?
I hope when the canuks run out of food they eat the commies, Justine first.
They've already tried this policy in Sri Lanka. It led to the government collapsing because they cannot afford the expensive imports. They were self-sufficient in rice and used to export tea.
Good idea.
(There’s that 2030 date again)
Yep
They got something planned for the next 7+ years?
Food starvation, godless reprobate agendas, Globalist New World Order, Global Digital Currency, end of cash (starting), contact tracing, restricted buying and selling, restricted travel, phone tracking ...........
Satan’s anti-messiah can’t be too far off from his public debut by confirming a 7-year plan to divide Israel for ‘Peace and Security’ - in fact that’s already started.
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