greenhouse gas emissions

Are Cover Crops Worth the Hype?

Cover crops have proven benefits in slowing erosion and improving soil health, making them central to the regenerative ag movement. But a new report questions their efficacy in mitigating climate change.

By Elise Koning posted on September 9, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Ambrook Research

Cover crops have proven benefits in slowing erosion and improving soil health, making them central to the regenerative ag movement. But a new report questions their efficacy in mitigating climate change.

Cover Crops & No-Till Help Produce Healthy Plants, Cows & People

By Brad Clark posted on May 7, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Global Farmer Network

Our motive is simple, and it explains everything we seek to achieve on our healthy farm: You can’t go wrong by doing right.

Understanding & Overcoming Cover Crop Yield Penalties

December 13, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Ohio's Country Journal

A research team from Ohio State University is inviting farmers in the Maumee River Watershed to participate in a USDA-funded project designed to help better understand the benefits and tradeoffs associated with integrating cover crops into corn-soybean rotations.

Nestlé Shifts Focus from Carbon Neutrality to Cutting Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

By Dean Best posted on July 24, 2023 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: Just Food

As more and more companies continue to invest in regenerative agriculture and set sustainability goals, cover crops, no-till farming and other conservation ag practices could start to become more widespread. Cover Crop Strategies is compiling these studies, stories and reports about the continued push for widespread adoption of conservation agriculture. Below is the latest report to be included in our coverage.

This Week

Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Sept. 16, 2022

September 16, 2022

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Salford Group.

North American Farmers Have a Long Way to Go with Establishing More Cover Crop Acres

By Sarah Hill posted on January 10, 2022

A new report lays out a way for Canada to offset 11% of its carbon emissions annually through natural climate solutions, such as utilizing cover crops. The report was authored by more than 3 dozen scientists and found that Canada has the potential to offset 78 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions (ghg) by 2030.

Carbon Markets 101

June 9, 2021 | Posted in Economics

Source: Messenger-Inquirer

To boil it down, a farm business or forest owner that grows crops or owns trees that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and return it to the soil can be paid by an electricity generator, manufacturing, or consumer product business that emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The transaction is a method of offsetting what we know of as “greenhouse gas emissions.” Read more in this article from the Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY).

Farmers Have Questions About Carbon Markets

January 22, 2021 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Indianapolis Star

Rick Clark was out working the field on his farm near Williamsport, Ind. one day, 16 years ago. Then a one-inch rain rolled in.?He didn’t think anything of it at the time, he said. Read more in this article from the Indianapolis Star.