Canada’s Agricultural Producers Addressing Environmental Issues (CAPAEI) program

The CAPAEI is program is bridge funding between our past Canada/Ontario Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Program that ended March 2006 and subsequent funding programs yet to be determined. The Bridge funding continues until March 31, 2007. CAPAEI is funded by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and coordinated nationally through the Soil Conservation Council of Canada. OSCIA as coordinated the project in Ontario with cooperation with Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario.



Ten demonstration trials are taking place across Ontario: 1) Demonstrating N Use Efficiency in Sweet Corn, 2) Horsepower, Fuel & Nitrogen Efficiencies in Manure Application Systems; 3) Assessing N Immobilization by Winter Wheat; 4) Improving N and Fertigation in Ginseng & Garlic; 5) Cover Crops for Biomass Production; 6) Carbon Sequestration in Tillage and Rotation; 7) Manure injection/incorporation methods reducing contamination of water sources; 8) BMP’s potential to reduce GHG Emissions; 9) Cover crops in N cycling before Vegetable crops and 10) GHG on-farm Calculator Demo.

Three applied research projects are occurring. 1) Evaluation of the value of cover crops in nitrogen cycling preceding vegetable crops (Dr. L. van Eerd, University of Guelph), Ridgetown Campus; 2) Effectiveness of manure injection and incorporation methods for reducing nutrient contamination of water sources – (Dr. B. Deen, University of Guelph) and 3) Evaluating Best Management Practices and their Potential in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from soils – (Dr. C. Wagner-Riddle, University of Guelph).

For articles of the National program, visit http://www.soilcc.ca/