Cedric MacLeod, executive director of the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association, said “without a stick you’ve only got a carrot. There needs to be a penalty in my mind.”
Don Lobb of Huron County, a life-long advocate of improving soil management, said subsidies to encourage planting cover crops and adopting conservation tillage can be helpful, but something harsher is possibly needed to get more compliance.”
Both were testifying at the Senate Agriculture Committee which Senator Rob Black persuaded his fellow senators to establish to follow up on the first Senate committee on the subject set up by the late Senator Herb Sparrow about 30 years ago.
