Soils act as vast reservoirs for the Earth's carbon, and even a minor alteration in the soil's carbon content can have a profound effect on the stability of our atmosphere. Scientists have recently recognized the substantial carbon storage capacity within soil fungal networks, particularly the mycorrhizal mycelial network. Up to 36% of annual global carbon emissions are stored within this network.

Siouxland Energy Cooperative of Sioux Center, Iowa, and Continuum Ag of Washington, Iowa, entered an agreement to provide farmers a path to receive potential premiums associated with Carbon Intensity (CI) Certified Grain.

Ryan Waite of Angola, Ind., has been growing no-till soybeans for 20 years, but, regarding conservation farming, he wasn't "all in" until just 5 years ago.