Bryan, this sounds like we are missing something here. Is the only use of
nitrogen fertilizer currently in air drills or is there another use that is
generating greenhouse gases?
Malcolm
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Don Hoyda’s comments on the Liberals plan to restrict farmers fertilizer
omissions by 30% struck a chord so I drilled in on the issue by talking to a
few farmer friends in Southern Alberta.The policy seems to be based on
erroneous assumptions.Nitrogen fertilizer can sublimate to produce nitrous
oxide.In past years when fertilizer was broadcast up to 40% of the nitrogen
element Could gasify and be lost in to the atmosphere as nitrous oxide a bad
greenhouse gas.But farmers no longer broadcast fertilizer.It’s expensive and
can’t be wasted.Now precision air drills can place a grain of fertilizer in
-ideal proximity to a grain of seed.Underground no nitrous oxide escapes or
more perfectly less than 1%.Furthermore modern nitrogen fertilizers are
engineered to be slow release.
Don is right that modern fertilizers have increased crop production as much as
10 fold.The targeting of farmers is wrong headed and based on assumptions that
have not caught up with current farm practices.What about other users of
chemical fertilizers that still broadcast.City parks,golf courses,homeowners to
name a few.
It’s utter stupidity!Bryan Waller
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On Jul 30, 2022, at 10:12 AM, Donald Hoyda <donaldhoyda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gentlemen: At Fort Saskatchewan, which has some of the best soil and rainfall
in Alberta if you plant a cereal crop without fertilizer the yield will be 12
to 15 bushels per acre. With currently applied amounts of nitrogen and
phosphate fertilizer the yield will be 90 to 100 bushels per acre. This has
been true for many years.
Regards, Don Hoyda
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On Jul 29, 2022, at 12:13 PM, Chessor, Edward
<echessor@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:echessor@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Looks like over the top rhetoric to me. How long have we been importing
fertilizer from Russia? Were Canadian farmers able to grow good crops for many
decades without it? Can they figure out how to do it again?
Ed Chessor
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Thoughts?
Wynn
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/trudeaus-fertiliser-ban-threatens-to-create-a-food-crisis/
