National Farmers Union emissions report AND High fuel costs

The National Farmers Union has updated its report on greenhouse gas emissions . . . using recently released 2020 data. The report said emissions from Canadian agriculture and the production of associated farm inputs is up 35 percent since 1990. NFU Director of Climate Crisis Policy Darrin Qualman will talk about the report and the significance of a 35 per cent increase spread over three decades. The president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities is worried the soaring cost of fuel could push some farmers off the land. Ray Orb says small family farms are looking at an additional one thousand dollars a day to fuel equipment this year, and larger farms upwards of an additional 5 thousand dollars a day. He says government needs to take action like removing the federal carbon taxes to avoid forcing small farmers out of business.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.