A senate committee looking into the status of soil health in Canada made its way to the prairies, including southern Alberta, this week.
Four senators first stopped in Saskatchewan and are now looking at native grass lands on Bill Newton's ranch east of Fort Macleod, in an area known as Spring Point, Alberta.
Black said the last senate soil study was done in 1984 and it's important for the committee to see what conditions are today. Senator Simon says visiting this ranch is incredibly different than what a farm in eastern Canada looks like and has different soil concerns to sustain the native grasses that grow in the region.
"You always have to balance how are we going to feed the world's population with maintaining our soils or improving our soils and keeping our ecological function, it's very challenging to create the balance," he said.
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