Farmland conversion and landfill sites

[danbrotherston]

"More people benefit"...it's basically impossible to quantify the "benefit" of being more self-reliant by growing more food locally and on productive land. I don't think that's something you can attach a dollar value too, which is why it is so easy for politicians to sell this, in today's world, largely ephemeral benefit for some jobs.

Sadly, most of the soybeans grown in Canada are for cattle feed only, not for people.

Indeed! And indeed sadly.

As for crop rotation...it is only possible to not rotate crops long term because of artificial fertilizers and pesticides, which are problematic and unsustainable in other ways. Certainly the green revolution (not environmentally related) has been enabled by them, but we do need to move towards more sustainable practices.