Vesco Agricultural Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Clean Seed Capital Group, a Company that is at the forefront of an ecological movement that strives to balance productivity with sustainability.

 

Clean Seed is uniquely positioned to contribute to and benefit from a rapidly emerging market opportunity in the sustainable agricultural sector.

 

Agricultural soils can sequester more than 10 percent of man-made carbon emissions. At the same time, agriculture is a contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Worldwide, agriculture as an industry is responsible for approximately 13.5 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.

 

Carbon sequestration in soil has been recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the European Commission as one of the measures through which greenhouse gas emissions can be mitigated. Agriculture has a dramatic capacity to sequester greenhouse gas emissions and worldwide, farmers have the opportunity to offset their own emissions and those of other industries.

 

Soils and plants contain 2.7 times more carbon than the atmosphere. Outside the oceans they represent the earth's largest store of biological carbon. Using soils and plants in ways that release carbon intensifies climate change and is one of the greatest sources of climate-disrupting greenhouse gases after fossil-fuel burning.

 

No-till farming practices can sequester as much as half a ton of carbon per acre a year and less tillage also means fewer passes by tilling equipment, and less fuel. As only 18 percent of U.S. cropland and 30 percent of Canadian cropland is currently farmed using no-till practices, there is a large potential for increased carbon sequestration (Science, April 2004).