Open Letter about carbon offset program

[bucket]

The other problem is those that represent us national whether it be GGC, CGC, APAS and their national lobby through the CFA....while they say they represent us....it seems the federal government outflanked them on this carbon policy and completely left out western Canadian farmers...


The GGC, CFA, GCC have let farmers down on this file and its a huge disappointment..

Forming the Agriculture Carbon Alliance is about 2 years late. The federal announcement is made and now they have to argue about it instead of being proactive ....same goes for the other national organizations...


But as GGC told me " why worry grain prices are high"

[chuckChuck]

In the real world when it comes to making a case, organizations and individuals that ignore scientific evidence and say that human caused climate change is a hoax or not happening, don't have any credibilty to make the demand that they should be paid for storing carbon and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

[bucket]

In the real world when it comes to making a case, organizations and individuals that ignore scientific evidence and say that human caused climate change is a hoax or not happening, don't have any credibilty to make the demand that they should be paid for storing carbon and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

OR in the real world when it comes to making a case governments that impose a carbon tax based on scientific evidence should not ignore the scientific evidence of sequestering ..

You can't believe the evidence of emissions and ignore the evidence of sequestering ...

You say tomato ...I say twomotoe....

Besides I believe carbon sequestering is good for the soil and the environment ...Trudeau and his minions don't even understand it. And I think Western Canada more than offsets the rest of Canada's emissions...farmland and forests are doing more good than most realize...

This is really a money play...yesterday there was a pilot project announced for grasslands by the CFGA ...alot of tit suckers attached to it ...DU, NCC, Verisco, Radicle etc....

[SASKFARMER]

Oh, **** off Chuck.

Admit you hate any farmer bigger than a section.

Admit you want us all to be equal.

Admit you have zero friends.

[furrowtickler]

OR in the real world when it comes to making a case governments that impose a carbon tax based on scientific evidence should not ignore the scientific evidence of sequestering ..

You can't believe the evidence of emissions and ignore the evidence of sequestering ...

You say tomato ...I say twomotoe....

Besides I believe carbon sequestering is good for the soil and the environment ...Trudeau and his minions don't even understand it. And I think Western Canada more than offsets the rest of Canada's emissions...farmland and forests are doing more good than most realize...

This is really a money play...yesterday there was a pilot project announced for grasslands by the CFGA ...alot of tit suckers attached to it ...DU, NCC, Verisco, Radicle etc....

Trudeau and his minions will refuse to admit it , it does not fit their agenda of wealth redistribution.....

[jazz]

bucket, there was just an article in the WP saying if farmers want to sequester more carbon, then need to move the current profile deeper first.

So no protill, but get out the banding points and deep rip it all every fall.

[SASKFARMER]

Sub soil and fall band?

[bucket]

bucket, there was just an article in the WP saying if farmers want to sequester more carbon, then need to move the current profile deeper first.

So no protill, but get out the banding points and deep rip it all every fall.

Isn't that contrary to the announcement yesterday about the CFGA pilot project and monitoring the native grasslands?

[jazz]

Isn't that contrary to the announcement yesterday about the CFGA pilot project and monitoring the native grasslands?

I dont know anything about that but before climate change policy hits ag (as in no opening the land at all subject to export penalty) we should get the jump on them and bury our CO2 profile now. We are being ignored right now but that wont last forever. Play the game.

[Misterjade9]

While I 100% agree with your concerns and the hypocrisy of not acknowledging the carbon sequestering side of the equation, I don't believe this government or even governments going forward honestly care about that. They see a tax revenue stream and nothing more.
I think if we are going to be able extract value from all of the practices that we have or will adopt in the future to make our farms more efficient we need to look to the end users of our products not government. The Cargill's, the Quaker's, the General Mills of the world are what consumers first see on the grocery store shelves when the encounter our products. SaskFarmer as already alluded to the pilot program that Cargill has in the U.S, and General Mills has had their oat sustainability program here for 5 or 6 years. As just about every major corporation is trying to purport the myth of being emissions free, food processors will be no different. Going forward these companies will need a strong base to build their claims off of, and I think this puts us in an enviable position to show just how we have adopted technology and stewardship practices that already have benefits, not only for us but also the so called climate change.
Even if we did have effective farm groups, I think they could talk till they were blue in the face and government still wouldn't acknowledge what we do already, but if there is a dollar to be made on the food processor side we have a better chance to see some return from that. I could be totally wrong but I really don't believe government cares about us as primary producers.