Measuring Fertilizer Emissions to Meet Federal Targets Very Costly and Will Hike Food Prices, Say Ontario Farmers
Measuring greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) caused by using synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is a tedious and unreliable process that will exponentially raise the cost of growing crops—which will inevitably be passed on to consumers, say farmers in Northern Ontario.
The Epoch Times spoke with several farmers in the region who expressed concern about adhering to the federal government’s proposed fertilizer emissions targets.
“It’s very, very difficult to measure,” said Justin Brennan, dairy-farm consultant and a certified crop advisor at Jonella Farms in Massey, Ont.
“You can measure ammonia losses. There is an instrument that can do it, but it’s not very reliable or very accurate—definitely not on a large field scale,” he told The Epoch Times….