Where will all the byproducts go? The potential wasteful consequences of the lambda-cy label change

The Canadian agriculture system is complex and integrated from start to finish. What does that mean? It means that grain systems might include forages, manure, or livestock, and fruit and vegetable systems might send byproducts to be fed to livestock to avoid expensive tipping fees and adding to landfills and waste. Even in the vegetable oil and biofuel processing systems, livestock play a key role as an end-use market for canola meal and dried distillers’ grains (DDGs) as a protein supplement. To put it bluntly, it’s rather difficult to really, truly separate horticulture and grain production systems from livestock. And…