Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
The fertilizer issue is getting a lot of airplay in the news these days. I personally think it's a laudable goal to try to find ways to reduce our emissions from fertilizer. I think if you had two farmers with the same amount of fertilizer, you could get two different emissions results based on how they apply that same amount of fertilizer. It's not about reducing the amount of fertilizer. I think it's about getting smart in how it's applied and how it's used.
I also know that a lot of farmers are leading the way in reducing their own fertilizer use. They are employing regenerative methods. They are paying attention to that important symbiotic relationship between plants and the microbiology in the soil. There is a way of doing this. There's a way of having an adult conversation about this. It will also serve to reduce farmers' input costs, ultimately.
In terms of selecting varieties of crops that can grow under conditions of less fertilizer use, paying attention to that microbiology and that important symbiotic relationship in the soil food web, is there anything CropLife can tell us about that important work that's being done?