b'are from the market the higher the uptake is likely to be.Rosaasen says while the crop commissions are hopeful about interest among Alberta producers, they believe some encouragement may be needed to get them to use the Farm Sustainability Readiness Tool. The commissions have advocated to the Alberta provincial government for farmers to be provided with some type of incentive to fill out the questionnaire, such as some kind of top-up through the Canadian Ag Partnership or a reduction in crop insurance premiums. Those discussions have yet to bear any fruit.Rosaasen says one of the challenges for many producers when it comes to sustainability recognition is many certification schemes come with different levels of compliance. For example,Karla Bergstrom, manager of Nevin Rosaasen, sustainability and some certification bodies will not allow the removal of a singlegovernment and industry affairs forgovernment relations specialist for tree or bush even when there is no other choice for a producerAlberta Canola Alberta Pulse Growerswhile others allow for some discretion. The Farm Sustainability Readiness Tool spells out what many of those differences are, he says, and allows growers to make more informed choices. for the pilot was provided through the federal/provincial Although some of the information available through theGrowing Forward 2 initiative. sustainability tool is Alberta specific, Bergstrom points out anyBergstrom says the initial inspiration for developing the producer can use it regardless of where they are located. In fact,online tool was the fact many of the sustainability platforms other provinces, including Saskatchewan and Manitoba, havewhich are available, such as International Sustainability & shown strong interest in it and how it could be adapted to suitCarbon Certification (ISCC) or the Sustainable Agriculture their specific needs and demands.Initiative (SAI), can be extremely complex for most farmers to Theyre very interested in what we have done. The potentialnavigate.exists to build out the fact sheets that would be relevant to thoseWhen you looked at the check lists of each of these jurisdictions, she says, adding whether or not that happens willsustainability platforms had, they were quite intense and you depend largely on buy-in from producer organizations in thosedidnt know where to start or what the objective was, she says. provinces. Group AGCO worked with us to group those into common The Farm Sustainability Readiness Tool was originallyareas and come up with a self-assessed checklist that farmers launched as a pilot project by the four crop commissions,could work through and see where they were at. We wanted to collectively known as Team Alberta, which represents aboutmake it user-friendly for farmers. If there were gaps that showed approximately 20,000 farmer members across the province.on their checklist they could see where they could make Bergstrom says joining forces on the project was something of aimprovements on their operations. And if there was a premium no-brainer since they had been working together on a numberto be had in the market, they could then determine if they were of shared policy issues among growers for several years andinterested in working with companies that would certify them.shared similar views on a number of concerns. 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