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Farmers welcome funding for healthy soils, clean water

The environment is important to all of us, but it’s particularly key for farmers and their businesses. That’s because we need healthy soils, and clean air and water to grow the crops and raise the livestock that provide the food, fuel and fibre we all depend on.

This makes environmental stewardship a core part of our jobs as farmers, but as it’s also a responsibility we carry on behalf of society, it’s a job we can’t do alone.

That’s why it was great to see two separate announcements from the provincial government recently for programming to enable research and projects that support water quality and soil health.

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Field Topography & Nitrogen Efficiency

Video: Field Topography & Nitrogen Efficiency

Allen Parrish, Pivot Bio Agronomist, explains how field topography can impact nitrogen efficiency. Hilly and rolling ground is more prone to runoff.

Pivot Bio’s microbial nitrogen source lives on each plant, delivering a continuous daily supply of nitrogen directly to the crop and helping reduce nitrogen loss from runoff.