Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, I'm a professional agrologist and a certified agriculture consultant. In 2006, I was recognized by Alberta as a distinguished agrologist, in 2014 as Canadian agri-marketer of the year, and in 2021 as one of Canada's top 50 most influential agriculture leaders.
Currently, I'm CEO of AGvisorPRO, a connectivity platform for agriculture. In 2007, I founded arguably one of the first carbon credit trading companies in Canada. To date, we've traded over $50 million of offsets in agriculture.
In 2019, on January 23, I presented this to all of the federal and deputy ministers of agriculture in Canada. These numbers come from the NIR and the IPCC, and according to these numbers, all the greenhouse gases emitted from agriculture are about 60 million tonnes, the smallest being fertilizer. From that, it is acknowledged that 11 million tonnes of carbon dioxide is sequestered or pulled out of the atmosphere into the soil. What is not accounted for is the full balance assessment of the 79 million tonnes of carbon dioxide being stored in the grain from the 95 million tonnes of produce that farmers grow.
Farmers capture 132% of their total CO2e emitted, and when you take soil into account, that's 150%. This grain is being shipped internationally, meaning that Canada's crop farmers are 30 million tonnes of CO2e to the positive. We take into account cow burps in the national inventory. It's recognized that carbon is stored in soils, and we recognize the carbon stored in forestry, so we should be thinking about the carbon that's stored in grain. When we do that, we come up positive.
However, today the focus is on fertilizer.
It's recognized that Canada produces about 1.6% of the global emissions. Agriculture is about 10% of Canada's emissions, and fertilizer is 17% of agriculture's emissions or 1.75% of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. So, if we reduced our emissions by 30% in Canada from all fertilizer sources, it would amount to 0.0028%.
That's really what we're talking about here, and I'm here to talk to you about agriculture technology, precision ag, slow-release fertilizers, etc.
Thanks for inviting me.