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By the time you hit the fields, you're too busy to hit the books. Submit your CCGA Cash Advance application now and give yourself a boost this April. Call 1-866-745-2256 or visit ccga.ca/cash 45 commodities $ 100k interest free $ 400k blended interest rate below prime This is important when quan fying emissions from a related prac ce at the field level. O en, top down es ma ons are used yet with biological systems, the soil type, moisture, temperature, crop type, llage and equipment/disturbance all play a role in how the carbon cycle works within prairie soils and cropping systems. This varies within a field let alone soil type, province or region within Canada. How could this impact producers? Certain provinces in Canada are moving at a different pace and at different pricing levels with different rules. As stated before, a jurisdic on that has lower costs may benefit, yet be penalized in other ways. Carbon leakage, the concept of lower cost goods entering a jurisdic on without the embedded cost of the carbon, may be filtering in from different regions. Canada represents a good case study in how different carbon pricing schemes may or may not dock with each other and fit together. The concept of Border Tariff Adjustments at na onal borders have been flirted with at the interna onal level to compensate for the race to the bo om predicament with our oceans and atmosphere. Given the current inter-provincial trade fric on regarding pipelines and lack of leadership, there is recogni on that the evolving patchwork of carbon pricing regula ons across provinces, and lack of coordina on regarding the quan fica on of carbon mi ga on and sequestra on represents challenges to Canada's climate change efforts. What is certain is the me for farmers to step up and to ensure their ac ons to reduce their GHG emissions, whether through prac ce change, capital investments in equipment or technology be recognized (baseline). It is also important that farmers, who pay for the price of carbon on not only their fossil fuel consump on, but also the secondary costs on their inputs (which cannot be passed on) also be able to access the funds to invest in research into new technology and prac ce changes. Agriculture can be part of the solu on if the prac ces adopted and the emissions that are avoided or sequestered be accounted for in provincial and federal metrics. A er all, producers are being priced on the carbon they emit. It is me government and society pay farmers for the emissions they sequester or avoided emi ng altogether. As the price for emi ed carbon increasing, so too should the price for mi ga ng or sequestering that carbon. P U L S E C R O P N E W S S P R I N G 2 0 1 8 | 9

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