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At the Farm Gate Today’s Canadian grower must balance economics and the environment. Innovations that lead to increased yields on a static land base – while maintaining the integrity of the soil – ensure global food security. • Agricultural innovation: new technologies in seed, crop nutrition, crop protection, and biologicals products support yield and sustainability goals. • Yield growth: to remain viable, a grower’s profitability must remain at the forefront. • Digital innovation: provides new, intuitive, and optimized ways to deploy seed, crop nutrition, and crop protection products. It allows for in-field data capture and the ability to gain insights from this data to maximize efficiencies and farm operation longevity.
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Agricultural productivity of major field crops in Canada has increased by approximately 34% since 2005 through the adoption of innovative technologies. >90% adoption rate of minimum tillage practices in Western Canada Between 1991-1994, a 1,000-acre farm in Saskatchewan, Canada would have released emissions equal to approximately four automobiles (4,600 kg of CO2/ vehicle/year) while producing crops. Between 2016-2019, this same farm would have sequestered the emissions from 432 cars - demonstrating the value of adopting minimum tillage, GM crops and use of glyphosate.
Source: Sutherland et al. 2021. Correlating GM crops, glyphosate use and increased carbon sequestration. Sustainability 13: 11679. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111679.
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