MADISON, WI, August 9th, 2010 – Greenhouse gas markets, where invisible gases are traded, must seem like black boxes to most people. Farmers can make money on these markets, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange, by installing methane capture technologies in animal-based systems, no-till farming, establishing grasslands, and planting trees. Farmers, students, extension educators, offset [...]
Posts Tagged ‘soil erosion’
Greenhouse gas calculator connects farming practices with carbon credits
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion on August 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Land Degradation
Posted in Agriculture, soil, tagged Agriculture, investment, No Till Farming, soil erosion on July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Mark Sircus Picture from the National Archives, taken during the “Dust Bowl” in the 1930’s The world’s croplands are in decline due to the pressure of human activities. The figure shows the regional and global trends in the total available area of the world’s croplands. The loss of arable land has been caused by a number [...]
No Till: Wind and water
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, No Till Farming, soil erosion on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Mark Watson, Panhandle No-till Educator Thursday, July 22, 2010 The value of leaving the previous crop’s residue attached and on the soil surface has been evident again this spring. The year started out with high winds during the winter which caused severe wind erosion in several summer fallow wheat fields around the region. Evidence [...]
What is Sustainable Agriculture?
Posted in Agriculture, tagged Agriculture, Clean Seed Capital, Farming, Green house gas emissions, investment, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Agriculture has changed dramatically, especially since the end of World War II. Food and fiber productivity soared due to new technologies, mechanization, increased chemical use, specialization and government policies that favored maximizing production. These changes allowed fewer farmers with reduced labor demands to produce the majority of the food and fiber in the U.S. Although [...]
Vesco Agricultural Technologies…Setting a new standard in No-Till farming equipment. Legal and Legislative factors
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, investment, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Farming has generally been an unregulated activity. The primary legal and legislative involvement has been in the approval and regulation of chemical sprays and fertilizers. That is now changing. Farmers are finding that environmental concerns are leading to legal and legislative impacts on their business activities. This fact was highlighted as long ago as February 11, [...]
Seeds of change sown by no-till revolution
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, tagged Agriculture, No Till Farming, soil erosion on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In recent years, Australia’s broadacre cropping industry has witnessed a revolution of an unprecedented scale.The no-till movement across diverse Australian cropping landscapes has been highly successful with the proportion of growers using no-till now at nearly 90 per cent in many cropping districts. According to the a report released by the Grains Research and Development [...]
No-Till Farming May Be Best Way to Reduce Ag’s Carbon Footprint
Posted in Agriculture, Investment, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, organic, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Kristen Ridley There’s been a lot of talk about the benefits of open pasture with grass-fed livestock to the environment, particularly about it’s capacity to sequester tons of carbon, but what about non-animal agriculture? As I recently reported, soil cultivation is responsible for the majority of agricultural carbon emissions, and over-cultivation is one of [...]
Farming carbon as a cash crop
Posted in Agriculture, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, investment, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kathleen O’Hara Like most city dwellers, my knowledge of farming is embarrassingly limited. But a conference on agriculture and global warming has inspired me to dig deeper (pun intended) into things rural. The speaker who grabbed my urban-oriented attention was American-born, U.K.-based Craig Sams, co-founder of Green and Black’s organic chocolate bars. His message was, [...]
Securing carbon in our soil
Posted in Agriculture, no till farming, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Nicole Schuetz Better farming practices can improve crop yield and lock up greenhouse gases Everybody knows plants store carbon. But soils do too. That’s the idea behind organic no-till farming, a cultivation technique that could dramatically increase soil carbon storage across the globe. Research has shown organic farming methods sequester more carbon per acre [...]
Disappearing dirt rivals global warming as an environmental threat
Posted in Agriculture, soil, tagged Agriculture, carbon credits, carbon market, Farming, Green house gas emissions, No Till Farming, soil erosion, Sustainable on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The lowdown on topsoil: It’s disappearing By TOM PAULSON The planet is getting skinned. While many worry about the potential consequences of atmospheric warming, a few experts are trying to call attention to another global crisis quietly taking place under our feet. Call it the thin brown line. Dirt. On average, the planet is [...]
