Sustainable Farming
Canola is a sustainable crop and ideal habitat for pollinators, offering nutritious nectar, plentiful pollen and dense, long blooming periods. As a result, the USCA calls for a federal incentive for farmers to grow more canola as honey bee habitat. It also supports all efforts to conserve resources, including water, soil, fuel and pesticides, during crop production along with crop rotation to protect farmland. Conservation efforts should include Integrated Pest Management — a holistic approach to farming that involves the judicious use of the most effective tools to control pests, including genetic, chemical, biological and cultural solutions — as well as cultivating wildlife on farmland, planting cover crops, omitting tillage and implementing other environmentally friendly practices when possible per the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Stewardship Program.