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Cover Croppers Increase, but not for Carbon Control

October 25, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Economics

The number of farms in the US planting cover crops is rising. In September 2020, 40% of farms surveyed for the Purdue University/CME Ag Economy Barometer said they intended to plant cover crops that fall. In September 2022, that number jumped to 57%.

[Podcast] Minimizing Environmental Impacts of Farming with Healthy Soils

March 9, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health, Termination

This week’s podcast, sponsored by Montag Manufacturing, we chat with independent agriculture consultant Bill Stangel of Madison, Wis., who joins us to discuss some of the ways farmers can minimize environmental impacts by focusing on developing healthy soils.

Soil Carbon Initiative Launches Regen Ag Certification Program

March 8, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health

First-of-its kind regenerative agriculture standard announce newest program component, seeks the next 100 farmers to begin go-to-market pilots this spring.

Cover Crops Can Help Farmers Meet Carbon Sequestration Goals

By Sarah Hill posted on January 26, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health

The biggest flour miller in the U.S. is looking to shift 250,000 acres of wheat fields to using regenerative agriculture practices, including cover crops by the end of this year. Ardent Mills, the largest North American miller of wheat for flour, is based in Denver, Colo., and wants to improve soil health, water quality, and crop yields while simultaneously trying to keep climate change at bay.

The Six Building Blocks of a Soil Carbon Contract

November 24, 2021 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Todd Janzen Blog

Carbon is number 6 on the periodic table and is made up of six building blocks—six protons and six neutrons. Contracts too, have their own building blocks. Read more in this article by agricultural attorney Todd Janzen.

Why Add Carbon to the Soil?

October 15, 2021 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Culpeper Star-Exponent

Carbon sequestration is coming up often in the farm press as we learn about another stream of farm income rising from our land-management practices. Why is adding carbon to the soil worth money to farmers, you might ask? Read more in this article from the Culpeper Star-Exponent (Culpeper, Virginia).

[Video] Cover Crops Effective for Sequestering Carbon

September 15, 2021 | Posted in Soil Health

Jay Norton from the University of Wyoming discusses why depleted soil has more potential to be revived.

[Podcast] Covers Combined with No-Till are Effective at Carbon Sequestration

This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Jay Norton, Professor and Extension Specialist in Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming. Norton will discuss what soil management practices remove carbon from the atmosphere to permanently store it as soil organic carbon, why soil organic carbon is critical for agriculture, how plants fix carbon in their roots and more.

September 14, 2021 | Posted in Economics

This week’s podcast, sponsored by GS3 Quality Seed, features Jay Norton, Professor and Extension Specialist in Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Wyoming. Norton will discuss what soil management practices remove carbon from the atmosphere to permanently store it as soil organic carbon, why soil organic carbon is critical for agriculture, how plants fix carbon in their roots and more.

Covers Improve Soil Health: Why Aren’t We Incentivizing Them More?

By Sarah Hill posted on August 30, 2021

Kudos to the tiny-but-mighty state of Vermont, which has recorded nearly 30% of its available cropland planted to covers in 2017, according to the Soil Health Institute. That’s far above the U.S. average of 5.6%.

[Video] Carbon Sequestration Has Positive Impacts on Soil Health

June 15, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Research soil scientist Hal Collins with the USDA ARS explains how plants use photosynthesis to sequester carbon and why growers will need to store more carbon in the soil as organic matter.