A coalition of growers is calling on the federal government to return fertilizer tariffs, or at least for those purchases made before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Comment: Farmers should not pay the price for Russia’s war

Farmers say federal fertilizer tariffs on purchases made prior to the invasion of Ukraine should be returned

Farmers across Canada are paying a 35 per cent federal tariff on fertilizers purchased from Russia prior to the war. Those regulations have placed a huge price disadvantage for Ontario’s, and Canada’s, crops.  “We recognize the mistakes the Russian government has made in invading Ukraine, but making farmers, and ultimately Canadian consumers, pay for a