Time for a Code of Practice for grain production

Opinion

By Cam Dahl I was on a speaker’s panel a few weeks back with a farmer who said he never wanted to hear the word sustainability again.  I understand the sentiment but we, as an industry, are going to be hearing that word more and more from customers and consumers around the world. Farmers shy away from sustainability because they see people who want to shut down modern agriculture.  They see more forms, paperwork, and bureaucracy.  These are legitimate concerns.  But it does not have to be that way. Canadian farmers have a good sustainability story to tell.  I don’t…