NFU says fertilizing not needed

[BreadWinner]

Frank Wright must be quite the farmer, 750 acre farmer speaking for all farmers at summit. Fertilizing is not needed to produce crops lol.

[BreadWinner]

Frank Wright must be quite the farmer, 750 acre farmer speaking for all farmers at summit. Fertilizing is not needed to produce crops lol.

My mistake Glen Wright NFU

[BreadWinner]

My mistake Glen Wright NFU

Glenn grew up as a city kid in Saskatoon, SK in the 1980s. He caught the farming bug when young because all of his extended family farmed. He wasn’t fortunate enough to inherit a family farm, but determined to live in the country, he and his wife moved to establish their own small farm near Saskatoon in 2004. He has worked as a mechanical engineer for 20 years and more recently switched to practicing law to support his farming habit with off farm income. They now farm about 750 acres near Delisle, SK, growing cereals, canola, lentils, forage, and working with their neighbors to compliment their livestock operations.

[Braveheart]

No Future Union strikes again.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Thanks for posting the bio.
It looks like he is imminently more qualified to speak for Farmers than any other nfu member I am aware of, which isn't saying much. Personally, I have a lot of respect for someone who had to go out and earn a living and buy their own farm.
Just difficult to understand how someone with that level of ambition could fall in with the socialists like double chuck at the nfu
And in reality, he is not wrong about not needing fertilizer. All we need to do is close the loop on the nutrients we remove. Maybe bushel of grain , pound of beef or bale of hay etc. needs to have a refundable nutrient removal fee attached to it, which is refunded as soon as the nutrients are returned to the land it came from. Recovered from the City sewers and the intensive farms, and the importing Nations.
In a perfect closed loop system, the only additional nutrients we should require are those lost to leaching or gasification, for increasing yields or bringing new land into production.
The fact that we are not already doing that indicates that it would require more energy input than what the nutrients are worth.

[Braveheart]

They don't have the right, no one does, to tell someone else what or what not is needed. Farms management,soils, location are all so individual there can be no need or don't need any crap from the NFU Manifesto.

Also, all this BS talk about net zero. Talk about blah, blah, blah! The thing is, their abacus must be broken. In calculations around emissions, one calculation has to be carbon removal. The greener and more lush the crop the more carbon will be removed from the atmosphere. Proper fertilized crop gives that lush green. A lot of climate blah, blah, blah lifts up the Amazon as the great cleaner of carbon, but, between the corn belt and crops on the Great Plains of North America we do pretty damn good as well. It's about damn time we got credit for what we do for this planet.

As for other emissions from farms, there are a lot of overpriced tier 4 final engines out on farms contributing a lot fewer emissions than the lineup of SUVs at any Costco.

[TOM4CWB]

Better watch out Braveheart...

The Chinese are threatening to replace our grain and livestock...

With GM carbon monoxide protein bars... soon to be made available at Costco just after the Great Reset!

Just makes your mouth water thinking about it!!!

Cheers!

P.S. .. then China can justify using coal as a 'net zero' carbon neutral renewable energy!

Value added supreme!!!

[jazz]

Well technically it can be done by going back to Chem fallow summer fallow with a corresponding decrease in food production of more than 50%.

Who is going to feed the 2B extra people coming in the next 30yrs.

Last time I checked Canada fed a lot of people. But just like oil we will just shoot ourselves in the foot and give market share to someone else.

[biglentil]

Strange the same ones that want to save us from a 0.02% chance of death with a vaccine, also want us to freeze and starve. 🤔

[FarmJunkie]

All I can say is he better fortify his bin yard cause hungry people won’t give a shit how much fertilizer he doesn’t use. They will care about what’s in his bins to eat.