Jacques Whitford understands the unique issues facing the agriculture and agri-food sector.
Our staff includes professional agrologists, agricultural engineers and other specialists. They have applied their expertise to find creative solutions on time and cost efficiently for governments, producers, and agri-food businesses across Canada, in the United States, and in settings as diverse as China, Central America and Southeast Asia.
Our experience is varied and includes:
- Agri-environmental assessments and monitoring
- Environmental risk assessment for farming operations and farm lenders
- Environmental management systems for agricultural industries
- Quantification and mitigation of greenhouse gasses from the Agri-Food sector
- Agricultural wastes management
- Agricultural monitoring associated with construction projects
- Soil surveys in a variety of eco-climes
- Nutrient management planning
- Nutrient and pesticide runoff/leaching studies
- Soil capability assessments
- Agricultural land use surveys
- Measuring and monitoring of soil carbon stocks
- Vegetation management plans
- Compensation plans for damage to agricultural lands
- Surveys of agricultural soils and formulation of soil management recommendations
- Environmental farm planning
- Agriculture industry consultations
- Soil organic matter simulation modeling
- HAACP programs
- Environmental assessment of agricultural undertakings and operations