Feds’ Emissions Reductions Target Cannot Be Met Without Cutting Fertilizer Use, Impacting Crop Yields: Expert Panel

Canadian farmers will have to drastically cut their fertilizer usage, thus impacting crop yields and threatening food security, in order to meet the government’s planned target of reducing fertilizer emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels before the end of the decade, say agricultural experts.
Speaking at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s webinar, “More Food Or Less Fertilizer? Policy Pain in Canada’s Agriculture Sector,” Gunter Jochum, president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association, said that Canadian farmers have already nearly maximized their fertilizer efficiency.
“I don’t think we can reduce fertilizer emissions without reducing fertilizer actually at the moment, because we are already so efficient,” said Jochum….