Carbon Credits

[binthere]

a very large amount of the total atmospheric carbon absorbed during photosinthesis is released back into the atmosphere. either through feed fed to cattle or crop residue left on the soil surface after harvest. plowing the residue under would capture and maintain a larger amount of carbon in the soil. this should make the earth muffins happy. farmers back to horse and plow.

[fjlip]

Everyone one of you copy/save this image and email to ALL liberals you can! Bury the suckers in facts! I did 6 emails already, to every cabinet minister. Yay JT put his FOOT in his mouth and let TAX slip from his lying face in the House of Commons.

[Guest]

Everyone one of you copy/save this image and email to ALL liberals you can! Bury the suckers in facts! I did 6 emails already, to every cabinet minister. Yay JT put his FOOT in his mouth and let TAX slip from his lying face in the House of Commons.

good science fj , trouble is its like arguing with a rock , even with farm kids that have been brainwashed in the universities , most of the young people have been brainwashed . one doesn't have to look far to figure that out . and the rest are making a fortune off of this horseshit . I am all for cleaning our act up , that's just a good way to operate . our farm is nothing like it was 30 years ago. these lying assholes probably don't even know what zero till or min till even means as they roar around the country on their private jets

[westernvicki]

Wondering is any group is organizing, or what is the plan...?

After all if producers do not present one, who would?

Is someone or some group leading the charge and if they are lets get behind them...

[sumdumguy]

Good work Oliver. Proof positive!

[westernvicki]

Oliver is right. Canada is a carbon sink.

We will still get the tax.

[westernvicki]

Oliver is right. Canada is a carbon sink.

We will still get the tax.

And so we should at the very least lobby for credit to offset the increasing costs which are about to come down the pipe, costs we cannot pass on.

[westernvicki]

Who is taking the lead?

[saskcanfarmer]

Who is taking the lead?

Vicky - Western Canadian Wheat Growers are the only org that has taken action. They have been in the news the last few months with op-eds and now have a petition going.

Http://carbontax.wheatgrowers.ca

[grassfarmer]

Some of you seem to be putting the cart in front of the horse. Canada's trees by some accounts sequester a lot of C02 so farmers should all be getting carbon credits? Is that the same farmers that have spent the last few decades cutting down all the trees and removing bush on their land? The majority of Canada's trees are on crown land so the Government needn't be paying anyone for them.
It is my understanding that modern crop farming methods even with zero or min-tillage are likely still net emitters. Ranchers/farmers that permanently over graze their pastures (seems to be the vast majority) are likely getting so little production per acre that it won't cancel out their methane emissions either.

Indications are that the agricultural lands of the earth could sequester enough C02 to take us back to pre-industrial revolution levels but this could only be achieved by the methods advocated in the Holistic Management info I posted the other day. Maybe the most beneficial thing many of you could do this winter is take a Holistic Management course? I think most people find it money well spent.