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Queensland carbon-negative soil project issued record number of credit units
It may look like a typical cattle paddock north of Brisbane, but this soil is doing much more than producing grass to feed the animals.
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A pillar of the climate-smart agriculture movement is on shaky ground
Cover crops have gained elite status as a way for farmers to fight climate change. But a closer look at the growing body of research raises questions about their ability to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
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Sustainable farming has an unlikely ally: satellites
Growers are using images taken from space to quantify how much carbon is stored in their soil and validate the credits they’re selling.
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In agriculture, a perennial problem with grains
Some researchers say Kernza will make the food system more sustainable; others doubt it will ever produce enough grain.
Hot Farm Podcast Episode 3: Grain of the future
In this episode, the Food and Environmental Report Network considers what farmers grow—and whether that, too, can change.
Tracing regenerative farming to its Indigenous roots
In her new book, Liz Carlisle shows that carbon can be stored in the soil if we adopt ancestral land management strategies, many of which are held by communities of color.
Soil proof: The plan to quantify regenerative agriculture
With the 1,000 Farm Initiative, Jonathan Lundgren will spend the next 10 years studying the potential to draw carbon into the soil and bring life back to farm fields.
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