Grain Farmers of Ontario Chair Mark Brock says there are lessons to be learned from the way the government's pollinator health regulations came into being.
Brock believes farm groups need to be more proactive than reactive in the future.
He argues that includes working to close the knowledge gap about agriculture among the urban population and at provincial government ministries.
Brock says it's time to take stock of how the seed treatment issue went and see where farm groups need to be more proactive in the future.
He says that will include areas like the discussion paper on climate change and the Great Lakes Water Act.
===
Brock says there are a lot of bureaucrats at Queen's Park who don't understand farming practices and some of the tools farmers use to make them more environmentally-friendly than they've been in the past.
[audio mp3="http://blackburnnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BROCK-Active-1.mp3"][/audio]
===
Brock says being proactive includes closing what he calls the knowledge gap about agriculture in a number of provincial government ministries.
[audio mp3="http://blackburnnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BROCK-Active-2.mp3"][/audio]
===
Brock believes farm groups need to take stock of how that issue went and see where they need to be more proactive in the future.
[audio mp3="http://blackburnnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BROCK-Active-3.mp3"][/audio]
