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Vesco Back from Exhaustion Video final part

The final instalment shows how we found a solution. Vesco is now poised to advance the agricultural industry into the 21st century and dramatically...

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Vesco Back from Exhaustion Video Part four

Part four is about the destruction of our farm lands through traditional farming practices. This is a major contributor to global warming.

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Vesco Back from Exhaustion Video Part Three

Part three shows the history of agriculture and the damage we have done to our farm lands.

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Vesco Back from Exhaustion Video Part Two

Part two describes how top soil our most precious resource works.

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Vesco Back from Exhaustion Video Part One

Part one describes an agricultural crisis of pandemic proportions: the catastrophic loss of topsoil. Sustainably-farmed soil holds up to 30% more c...

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About Vesco Agricultural Technologies

Today the plow is under attack. Increasingly farmers are turning to conservation agriculture -- a new generation of equipment and methods that avoids the massive soil disturbance caused by the plow. The most effective form of conservation seeding is known as "no-tillage". Using "no-tillage", soil disturbance is confined to a narrow band, just wide enough to place seed and fertilizer, and residues of the previous crop are left in place; thereby protecting the soil from the ravages of wind, sun and water. The technique of no-tillage virtually halts erosion and pollution caused by run-off and will holt the release of carbon gases. Our revolutionary technology will play a key role in carbon sequestration. Agricultural experts have indicated that the movement to no-till is becoming urgent and that it is feasible for 50% of the world's food production be grown using no-tillage by the year 2020.

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Taking carbon out of the atmosphere by means of soil sequestration can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 10 - 20 per cent.

1 gigaton is = to 1 billion tons of carbon or 2750 Empire State Buildings or 142,000,000 African elephants.

The land based carbon cycle works like this: carbon is taken out of the atmosphere by plants and converted to organic matter through photosynthesis. The oxygen in the molecule is released back to the air and the carbon becomes part of the plants structure and eventually the soil.

Our chemical use in crop production further inhibits the soil to recover from its depleted carbon position.

A 23-year comparable study by the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania clearly demonstrates that land farmed organically through methods like no till and winter cover crops, absorb 30% more CO2 than conventionally farmed land. This translates to a decrease of 1.8 metric tonnes of CO2 in the atmosphere per acre of land converted to organic farming methods.

In Canada, by implementing organic farming practices on all conventionally farmed land our CO2 emissions would be reduced by 20% per year from the very first year. If, on an annual basis, we implemented organic farming methods on 5 % of all conventionally farmed land within a decade we would take more than 10% of our CO2 emission out of the atmosphere.

Not only does this no till method help retain soil organic matter and therefore carbon, Less tillage also decreases emissions of CO2 from farm machinery since the equipment makes fewer runs over the field. C02 sequestration through no-till practices are tripled when combined with the planting of winter cover crops which are used in organic farming to maintain a healthy soil.

The no till solution has been studied by the Federal Government as one of the ways to sequester carbon and meet their Kyoto targets
Governments around the world are currently pouring billions of dollars into their agricultural industry through various subsidy programs.

Canada currently subsidizes the agricultural industry at a rate of 7 billion each year.

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