Soil carbon sequestration is an important piece of the climate-change mitigation puzzle since almost 45 percent of global soil is used for agricultural purposes, and soil can store about 2.3 times the amount of carbon compared to the carbon in atmospheric CO2 and 3.5 times more than in living plants. EarthOptics has launched the Soil Carbon Project to accurately measure and display on qualifying climate-smart product packaging the amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere and stored in the soil where the agricultural ingredients were harvested.
Indigo Agriculture announced a deepened commitment to advancing discovery in soil carbon science, enabled by the acquisition of Soil Metrics — an industry-leading technology for comprehensive soil carbon and greenhouse gas (ghg) assessment in agricultural soils.
Global commodities trader Cargill announced it is launching a carbon farming program for the 2022 season that will pay growers for production practices that lower emissions and capture more climate-warming carbon in soils, says Reuters.
Amazon on Sept. 2 announced the launch of the Agroforestry and Restoration Accelerator in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, a global environmental organization. The Accelerator will create a more sustainable source of income for thousands of local farmers in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Pará, while also restoring native rainforests and fighting climate change by naturally trapping and storing carbon.
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Crop solutions provider Yara has launched the Agoro Carbon Alliance, a global initiative aimed at helping farmers earn additional revenue through positive climate action.
Incentivizing the implementation of conservation farming practices can be a challenge, but a growing awareness of the role agriculture can play in reducing the impacts of climate change could mean more money in farmers' pockets.
Saskatchewan no-tillers certainly aren’t in a cheerful mood these days when it comes to carbon sequestration. It’s because they recently learned growers who use minimal tillage or low-soil disturbance cropping systems could be shut out of the potentially lucrative Canadian market for carbon credit offsets.
Elements of the expansion include 8 new states as well as the extension of eligibility for growers who have adopted strip-till, no-till or cover crops going back to 2012.
New initiative from Corteva Agriscience — rolling out in illinois, Iowa and Indiana in 2021 — is designed to ease farmers' access to carbon credits and create flexible solutions to help farmers increase profitability while contributing to a climate change solution.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Montag Manufacturing, growers from across the U.S. share their predictions for the upcoming planting season, including one no-tiller who’s “bullish” about a great spring.
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