If the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee were asking for a rating on the soil health report, Jim Tokarczak would give it an A+.
Tokarczak is executive director of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada and credits the Senate committee for doing a great job of addressing this issue from a Canadian perspective, while respecting the regional nature of Canadian agriculture.
The 25 recommendations made in the report are:Soils matter: why soils are vital to Canada’s economic, environmental, human and social health“This strikes the right tone because any soil health strategy needs to work for producers and ranchers and in the future will need to have an industry-led approach in partnership with government and industry,” Tokarczuk said.
Tokarczuk’s organization has long been pushing for a national soil health strategy and is pleased to see similar incentives in the report’s recommendations. Key to success, Tokarczuk says, will be determining how to incentivize farmers and ranchers to take soil health measures and how to measure, monitor and hold them accountable for their impact.
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