We are doing it ALL wrong

[fjlip]

NFU has the answers...

[AlbertaFarmer5]

"what is needed is an integrated suite of government measures"

"we need thousands of new independent agrologists to transfer knowledge"
The scariest words in the English language, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Does anyone happen to remember what happened that time when the government of the USSR thought they knew better than the dumb farmers? How well did that work out?
I'm sure it's different tis this time though.

[makar]

My dads cousin ran the state farm in the old country. One year the soviets were short of sugar beets so ordered beets be planted. Beets dont grow there. Then the agronomists wouldn't allow harvest until the ground froze solid.

[kANOLA]

What a clown exactly what you would expect from the NFU that supposedly are representing us. Lowering emissions through less inputs, I wonder if he chooses who eats and who starves.

[furrowtickler]

He said nothing other than forcing farms to hire a bunch of government appointed agronomists… to tell us how to farm .
what could possibly go wrong there

[seldomseen]

That guy is delusional!
Just like Chuck.

[oldjim]

FFS. He waxes nostalgic about the days of low inputs and "sustainable" (whatever the hell that is). Back in the 1950's inputs like fertilizer, chemical weed control, fungicides, were just coming into being - and there was only about 3 billion people in the world to feed. Now there's 8 billion. There'll be a lot of starving people if agriculture reverts back to low inputs. Come to think of it, I remember as a kid in the 1950's hearing about the starving people in Africa, in China, in India. Now the primary cause of starvation is warfare. Or they're relying on "low input agriculture." Stupid jerk.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Sri Lanka tried it in 2021. With predictably disasterous results. Cancelled shortly after when famine ensued.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

What Darrin fails to mention about low input agriculture over the past 10,000 years which he romanticizes; is that the net result of the low input agriculture is most of the fertile crescent and Mediterranean where it started out, is now a wasteland/man made desert from erosion, salinity, loss of OM, over grazing and exhaustion of nutrients. Cheap fossil fuel energy have provided us with the option of actually making agriculture sustainable, unlike our ancestors.

Read the book Dirt, the erosion of Civilizations for a history of the devastating effects of low input agriculture throughout history. Of course, the author is cut from the same cloth as Darrin, and draws the conclusion that we need to adopt low input agriculture to fix an imaginary problem of climate change...

[Oliver88]

That guy is delusional!
Just like Chuck.

This clown was one of the two experts quoted by CBC/CTV to badmouth SARM and farmers for passing a resolution declaring CO2 is not pollution.

[TSIPP]

I’ll look for the article, sure nice if someone would send a hot link of it.

[TSIPP]

Okay, I found the article, I was looking for a guy named glen, it’s not glen but Darrin does have a smartass look in his eye.

[kANOLA]

This is the type of people representing farmers and lobbying gov,no wonder we are seeing the crazy policies.

[shtferbrains]

Perfect example of how government can fid "expert" advice to confirm anything they want to push out to the peons.
They have extensive studies to back it all up.
All that is required to make it all happen is more regulation and a lot of government experts coming to your yard "teaching" you how to abide by them.
Not realy a new idea.
Stalin and Chairman Mao had similar programs.

[sumdumguy]

What a dud! They are turning over all the rocks.