Fourth-generation Saskatchewan grain farmer Jeff Bennett says increasing the carbon tax won’t reduce his operation’s emissions and risks damaging agribusiness and bankrupting growers. It’s going to put farmers out of business, it’s that dramatic. Jeff Bennett, “Tesla is not making combines or tractors—we don’t have that option. But we are doing a very good job of growing environmentally sustainable crops in the global market we compete in, and to put a carbon tax on that makes absolutely no sense,” Bennett told The Epoch Times. “We are price takers with international competition for all the commodities we grow. We cannot set our price and push the carbon tax part of our bill on to someone else.” Canada is among the world’s five largest agricultural exporters, and with the exception of oats and barley, the majority of its grains are grown for international buyers: 75 percent of wheat production, 95 percent of …
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