Canada’s emissions reduction plan is the first to credibly explain how Canada can reduce emissions sufficiently to avoid catastrophic climate change — the kind…
Part of that plan involves reducing emissions from fertilizer by 30% between 2020 and 2030 — an ambitious goal that can be achieved using techniques that many farmers across the country already use. This includes utilizing variable rate fertilizer application, nitrification and urease inhibitors, split applications of fertilizer, along with other practices known collectively within the agriculture sector as 4R nutrient stewardship, which is used to some extent by over half of Canadian farmers.
Farmers are all-too-familiar with the practical consequences of climate change being felt right now across Canada. Severe drought across the prairies, disastrous flooding in British Columbia, and generally more frequently volatile weather are not theoretical consequences to be worried about decades from now; they are here right now. It’s the opposite of the regular, moderate weather crops need to thrive and for farms to remain consistently profitable.
It was also welcomed by farmers already adopting management practices that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, who feel that they were doing their part.
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