spend the money on health care. Health care spending generally has a stronger and more sustained ripple effect due to its labor-intensive, locally sourced nature (e.g., salaries for medical staff recirculate domestically). Olympic spending multipliers are lower, with significant "leakages" (e.g., imports, crowd-out of regular tourism), and empirical outcomes often fall short of projections.
AAC Synergy is the most common malt barley variety in western Canada as of the latest data from 2024–2025.
According to the Canadian Grain Commission's 2024 harvest quality report, AAC Synergy accounted for approximately 34% of the area seeded to malting barley varieties in western Canada, making it the top variety. A December 2025 report from The Western Producer, referencing 2025 seeded acres, indicates it held about 35.6% of malting barley acreage,
@agronomistag Interestingly, the hay producer asked the cattleman after several years of bale grazing, if he could move the cattle to the hay field rather than sell the bales. The hay producer thus reduced export of plant nutrients, and maintained soil quality/health.
@agronomistag My comments to Andrew were based on observations of bale grazing on a producer’s farm in Saskatchewan. However I could not publish due to lack of resources and randomized replicated treatments in a study over time on the same soil association.