Agriculture committee  To your question, I would answer, yes. The Soil Conservation Council of Canada and the Compost Council of Canada have recently published a road map to soil improvement. There's a lot of research going on, but to try to work together even to understand where the opportunities are

Agriculture committee  There are opportunities and room for both. One of the things that we did two years ago was have the University of Alberta look at the literature that was out there and the research that had been done that could show the impact of different practices on a grain farmer's carbon out

Agriculture committee  From the perspective of the farmers we talk to, it was about outcomes. Tell us what you want, and we'll figure it out. It's not quite as simple as that, of course. It requires research and practical application. The farm is a whole unit. It's not one particular practice or anot

Agriculture committee  To add a small amount to what Erin provided you, I think what we see from the industry sector is that there are many pressures on Environment Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and that it is challenging to balance them all. Lots of things have come very suddenly and ha

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Thank you so much for the opportunity to appear before you, and actually in person. It feels good. I'm Susie Miller, executive director of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Crops. We're an organization that is committed to pursuing opportunities and meeting the

Environment committee  No, but I do know that in Ontario, for example, there are a lot of farms around 200 acres. You would never get that out in the Prairies. It doesn't take a 10,000-acre farm, but it might take a farm of 500 to 1,000 acres.

Environment committee  The level of technology adoption is quite high, but the optimization of the use of the information from that technology is still quite low.

Environment committee  I just want to mention the whole issue of plastics. They don't bale with twine anymore. They bale with plastics and they use plastic bags. I think there is a lot of opportunity between the agriculture sector and the household sector to take a look at innovations in what we do wit

Environment committee  I can't give you the exact amount. It varies by location time. For the individual producer it can mean a significant amount. I think that's what Grain Growers was getting at. On a regular basis, grain dryers are used sparingly, but some years, and this would be one, where it wa

Environment committee  This year it would be Ontario and Alberta because the snow came before the harvest was completed. It does move around. I don't think any region is exempt from the risk.

Environment committee  I have heard anecdotally from talking to farmers in Saskatchewan that corn is much more challenging because there's so much trash left on the surface it's hard to see below it.

Environment committee  Again, I said anecdotally. We don't cover them, but potatoes and vegetables don't fit that. It's combined with regions in some areas. For example, where it is very wet, and you have crops like canola that are more susceptible to disease, tilling will reduce the risk. It's indiv

Environment committee  I'd like to use two examples of where government instruments have helped or not contributed. One is on the adoption of this technology we talked about, the zero till. Essentially there was very little federal government investment. It was provincial government investment that got

Environment committee  I can't answer that question. I don't have enough knowledge. I'm sorry.

Environment committee  These numbers are from 2014, and the study was completed in 2017.