Bayer CropScience is one of the world's leading innovative cropscience companies in the area of crop protection, non agricultural pest-control, seeds and plant biotechnology. They strive to build long term, consistent, predictable and mutually beneficial partnerships with our customers and stakeholders, and aim to generate value through innovation.
Each acre of U.S. cropland contains 50 to 300 million buried weed seeds.
Our climate has changed many times during the Earth’s history resulting in weather patterns and periods that have lasted decades to millions of years. Climate change may occur in smaller regions or across the whole Earth affecting rainfall patterns, snow and ice cover, sea level, and contribute to elevated greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide concentrations. Today, the term climate change most often refers to changes in modern climate as a result of human activities. |
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The unique nature of U. S. agriculture and the role that it has played and can play in addressing climate change are many. Specifically, our industry is proud of the role that agricultural chemicals have played in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Through the use of agricultural herbicides, crop yields can increase by up to 20% but also enable growers to manage weeds without excessive tillage. Such practices result in annual saving of 337 million gallons of fuel that tilling would require and prevents an estimated 356 billion pounds of disturbed soil from eroding into rivers and streams. Conservation tillage is a solution to greenhouse gas emissions in at least three ways: Less fossil fuels burned for tillage; Carbon sequestration increased in lower tilled soils; Greater productivity per acre of land in production.
In fact, the net effect of higher yields has avoided emissions of up to 161 gigatons of carbon since 1961 and investment in yield improvements compares favorably with other commonly proposed mitigation strategies. Therefore investment in agricultural yields should be a prominent step among efforts to reduce future greenhouse gas emissions.