COVID-19 has turned our world upside down. It’s impossible to close out a summation of 2020 without starting with that. Our 2020 heroes are our front-line workers from all industries from the battlegrounds inside Intensive Care Units to the steady hands of reliable truck drivers transporting our goods across our nation. Our thoughts are with all in our communities dealing with broken hearts from their losses or the suffering and lingering damages from their own battles with the global virus. Our governments are trying. Our academia are racing forward on research they never ever planned to do. And on and on and on as we all deal with this massively-complex and interconnected situation in whatever role we can play.
Indeed, the arrival of the vaccines offer hope for us all.
On that positive front, in 2020, MFGA continued our strategic path as a collaborative, solutions-based, producer led group with a growing network and activated wingspan around producer information and farmland projects specifically targeting forages, grasslands, soil health, water and regenerative agriculture practices. But again, in the context of looking forward, there is also balance with great news in the form of challenges we can expect. On that front, MFGA believes the growing threat of drought across our province and the Prairie province region needs priority attention and planning. You will see a dedicated approach toward profiling farmer-led practices and drought-buffering tools and activities that can better help our producers and communities in these expected and forecast times ahead.
As a wrap to 2020 and a cant-get-here-fast-enough hello to 2021, MFGA would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy and prosperous New Year.
Muchos Grasses,
Duncan Morrison, MFGA Executive Director
