APAS Releases Report On Impacts Of Carbon Tax

Jan 12, 2021

In December, Ottawa announced more increases for the federal carbon tax that would see it reach $170 per tonne by 2030.

The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan has done some number crunching on just what that will mean for farmers.

President Todd Lewis says when you look at the costs associated with growing wheat, that would put the cost at over $12.50 an acre in 2030 due to the carbon tax.

"It's really going to affect the sustainability of the industry long-term if we see these increased costs passed 100% on to producers. It's going to make investing in new technologies and improving our carbon footprint, it will make it more difficult to do that. So, it's really counterintuitive to what they're trying to establish here with these changes."

Lewis notes these costs would be even higher in years like 2019, when most of the grain and oilseed crops required grain drying due to a wet harvest.

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

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