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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
According to the graph on the discussion document - https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/abo...culture-sector
a 30% reduction takes us back to like 2006 levels of synthetic fertilizer.
I'm not going to pretend to know anything about it, but at least at a surface level its not that far back where we using less.
Graphs also show less emissions in the west compared to Ontario, Quebec and the maritimes. |
We’ve been using roughly the same rate of fertilizer for years. In our area since 2006 a lot of pasture land has been broken up for crop land. That would increase fertilizer use. After 2002 and the BSE troubles many farmers got rid of some of their cows and need less pasture.
If it’s unused N that worries them would switching to variable rates work? That way you are trying to put the exact amount of fertilizer on a specific area of the field hoping the crop uses it all an none of it is lost.