Response to New Horizons: Ontario’s Draft Agricultural Soil Health and Conservation Strategy

 

Agricultural soil health is a vital issue in Ontario, which also holds some of the country’s most viable and productive farmland. Fertilizer Canada supports the development of a strategy to enhance the health of Ontario’s soils for agricultural production. As members of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada, we encourage collaboration between stakeholders to support the commitment to secure the sustainable productivity of Canada’s soils. Aligning the research and extension efforts of soil science and conservation in Ontario is imperative to reach these objectives.

 

Read the full response to the New Horizons: Ontario’s Draft Agricultural Soil Health and Conservation Strategy here.

 

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Six hundred Canadian farms grow grain for Warburton's under custom contract — and that partnership exists because of Canadian plant breeding. Now the man responsible for maintaining it is sounding the alarm.

Adam Dyck is the program manager for Warburton's Canada, a company that produces over two million loaves of bread a day for more than 20,000 retail locations across the UK. He's watched Canadian wheat deliver thirty years of yield gains and quality advancements that make it worth sourcing at scale — and shipping across the Atlantic. But he's also watching the investment conditions that produced those gains come under pressure. Dyck makes the case for a new funding mechanism that brings both public and private dollars into wheat breeding before Canada's competitive window starts to close.