Whether you're a farmer or a backyard gardener soil is key for food production from the crops and vegetables grown to the grass and forage needed for livestock.
Research has shown that Canadian soil has been severely degraded in recent decades, a major aspect of soil degradation is the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the soil.
According to the Soil Conservation Council of Canada (SCCC), the country lost 3.9 million hectares of farmland between 1972 - 2011 and comes with an economic cost of $3.1 billion annually.
Farmers use various practices to sequester CO2 in the soil with the goal of making the soil healthier and more productive.
Some of those practices include the careful use of fertilizer, zero-till or minimum-till farming, crop rotations, and planting cover crops or inter-cropping.
National Soil Conservation Week is the best way to create awareness around soil health and conservation in Canada.
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