Canada’s farmers will suffer if the country’s productivity crisis doesn’t improve. That was the sobering message from Farm Credit Canada’s J.P. Gervais at the Canadian Pulse and Special Crops Convention in September. “I’m super-enthusiastic about the long-term outlook,” said Gervais.

Canada’s agriculture industry is ideally situated and pulse crops offer the single greatest greenhouse gas emissions reduction tool that farmers have in hand, convention attendees heard. But Canada is also lagging behind the United States in productivity growth. From 2017 to 2022, Canada’s productivity grew only 3.2 per cent, compared to 9.1 per cent in the U.S.

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