Farming can be a balancing act Grade 9 geography students at St. Patrick’s Catholic high school in Sarnia discovered taking part in a program developed by the St. Clair Region Conservation Authority.

About 150 students at the school gathered Friday morning in the cafeteria for a Future Farmers Summit culminating a program delivered by staff at the conservation authority as part of a federally funded effort to reduce the amount phosphorus from farms reaching Lake Erie where it contributes to toxic algae blooms.

Part of the morning was spent on an exercise where students took on the roles of farmers balancing finances, crop yields and runoff of phosphorus from fertilizer into waterways that flow into the Great Lakes.

Algae blooms in Lake Erie cost society a lot of money, impact health, wa

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