Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses. I appreciate this.
I wanted to maybe continue the conversation a bit more on the long term. We know that fertilizers are the largest on-farm expense for crop producers, and even prior to the conflict in Ukraine, the prices had already risen rapidly.
Canada's fertilizer industry is one of the most efficient in world, so I'm interested in learning about the sustainable methods of improving the industry's environmental impacts, ways of using less fertilizer that won't cut into productivity, because we've already heard it. Our farmers want to do their part by acting on climate change and reducing emissions. Efficient fertilizer management is integral to any program and can be cost-saving to farmers. This is especially true of nitrogen, which, if used ineffectively, can contribute to nitrous oxide emissions, which are more powerful than carbon dioxide.
I looked into the nitrous oxide emission reduction protocol, which gives farmers a new way of benefiting from reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Can you at Fertilizer Canada—either witness—explain the program that helps our farmers with climate-smart agriculture?