Agriculture Industry Bets on Carbon as a New Cash Crop

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Big agriculture companies are jockeying with startups to encourage crop producers to adopt climate-friendly practices and develop farming-driven carbon markets

Big agriculture companies including Bayer AG , Nutrien Ltd. and Cargill Inc. are jockeying with startups to encourage crop producers to adopt climate-friendly practices and develop farming-driven carbon markets. Those efforts would let retailers, food makers and other companies offset their greenhouse gas emissions by paying farmers for their fields’ capacity to withdraw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and trap it in the soil.

The concept envisions the U.S. Midwest’s swatches of cropland doing double duty as a vast carbon sink. Plants’ process of photosynthesis withdraws carbon dioxide from the air, combines it with water and sunlight to produce energy, and ultimately embeds carbon in dirt through roots, while releasing oxygen back into the atmosphere. Soil, if left undisturbed, can retain the converted carbon for years.

Agricultural companies, long criticized as environmental villains, say that paying farmers to maximize those natural processes can put the scale of modern farming behind a potential climate solution. Farmers, following half a decade of lean crop prices, are contemplating a possible new source of income that is less dependent on weather and agricultural commodity markets. The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that the agriculture sector accounts for 10% of U.S.

 

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What are the practices used by the farmers, in addition to using manure to fertilize corn before planting soil? I don't see this, on its own, working to have net carbon capturing effect. Farmers used the technique for hundreds of years to slow down soil erosiosion but that's it.

proposes in the framework of a regional redevelopment & diversification of the means of agricultural production, housing & parcels of agricultural land in rural or urbanized zone in order to revitalize & rehabilitate isolated or over-densified territories

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People must be dumb!! The crops already take the carbon and make oxygen! What a way to create more unreal jobs!! Like the old saying in Russia! 'We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us'

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