Okay, I am not advocating a sudden elimination of all fertilizer use. I am
asking how much of the fertilizer Canadian farmers use comes from Russia. I
remember there being phosphate mining in Saskatchewan, and exports from there
through Vancouver. I also remember a fertilizer plant in BC, using sulphuric
acid from the Trail smelter, and I understand Nutrien is producing urea in
Alberta. I doubt we are totally dependent on Russian fertilizers.
I am also old enough to remember a time when crop land was fertilized with
manure from livestock. What yields did that produce? Were input costs lower?
Spatial separation of livestock and grain production has made that more
difficult.
Ed
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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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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/
