Angus Reid Carbon Tax survey

[furrowtickler]

Also we switched to a Horsch planter that is twice as efficient as a drill the same size and uses far less fuel per ac than any other seeding tool. Also reduced the amount of seed needed by over 60 % reducing the amount of seed pesticides used per ac to raise the same crop. So Lee’s need for evil seed companies to push out more pesticides and pollutants into the atmosphere.
I will think of more ... but I gotta go
Looking foreword to others responding besides yourself . Chuck , horse 🐎????

[bucket]

At a certain point you hit a wall as to what more can be done....its the matter of which point you benchmark from...1988,2008...between those two years major changes occurred in farming practice in western canada...

Straight lines and fewer passes in a field but the major reduction occurred prior to 2008 ...society hasn't credited for those carbon reducing efforts that every industry going forward will be and they will have a different benchmark to work from...


Can I reduce fuel usage much more on my farm...very little...I have to seed spray and combine...The only other reduction would be to seed it all to grass and bale a little for the winter.....doesn't come without a major re think and I am not there yet....but over the last decade over 800 acres has been put to grass.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Chuck, where do you get the idea that anyone thinks climate isn't changing or that humans don't have any effect? Many of have responded, proving your allegations wrong. I listed many ways in which we are changing climate. But you continue to accuse and belittle anyone who doesn't take the next illogical step.

As the survey proves, people are aware of climate change, and they don't think it is a problem that needs addressing. It is their last priority, your chicken little routine has had the opposite effect to what you intended. It is now people's last priority.

Against astronomical odds, You have managed to lose the PR battle. That is an incredible achievement, you must be proud.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Switched to all no-till. Grow perennial hay/alfalfa, have cows grazing grass as long as possible. But of course, that doesn't count since they are still releasing methane, which is even more evil than CO2, and deserves a tax all it's own.

I would hazard to state that we burn less diesel per cow than any operation in this climate that I am aware of.

On the grain end, we burn less diesel per bushel than any other local operation, but recreational tillage is a favorite pass-time around here too.

I drive a compact car nearly everywhere I go, rarely use the pickup unless the load physically can't fit in the car.

I am on a mission to sequester as much carbon into the soil as possible, the higher the carbon is in the atmosphere, the more successful this will be. As far as I know, that is the goal of any farmer who is attempting to be as sustainable as possible.

[wd9]

Going to a stripper header made a huge difference, roughly improved efficiency on diesel by around 100%. Aside from many other benefits of tall stubble, like you furrow, there will be no recognition of doing these things. Other then maybe paying less carbon tax from buying less fuel. Which is kind of the point of the tax - apparently.

I really would like to know where the tax collected ends up being spent.

[furrowtickler]

At a certain point you hit a wall as to what more can be done....its the matter of which point you benchmark from...1988,2008...between those two years major changes occurred in farming practice in western canada...

Straight lines and fewer passes in a field but the major reduction occurred prior to 2008 ...society hasn't credited for those carbon reducing efforts that every industry going forward will be and they will have a different benchmark to work from...


Can I reduce fuel usage much more on my farm...very little...I have to seed spray and combine...The only other reduction would be to seed it all to grass and bale a little for the winter.....doesn't come without a major re think and I am not there yet....but over the last decade over 800 acres has been put to grass.

Exactly Bucket .... that’s the thing people that don’t grain farm have absolutely no fricken clue about ....and never ever will.
Guys like grass who moved here recently, we have farmed here for 108 years , and he spouts off how we don’t know SFA . Same with chuck , absolutely no evidence saying what he has done or is doing , just scold the rest of us like some smart ass school teacher that has no real life experience but thinks he is superior to those of us who don’t follow his every word ... they can go *** themselves . We do more than 95% of the general population but get shot on .. and they wonder why they get the response they do 🤡