Andrew Voysey, Head of Sales & Carbon, Soil Capital Seemingly at every turn, getting paid for carbon is the talk of the town. A flick through r e c e n t editions of Direct Driller is proof enough! As the independent agronomy firm that launched Europe’s first certified and multinational carbon payment programme for …
Getting Paid For Carbon – Farmers’ Top 10 Concerns Read More »
Written by Samuel Smith from Farm Carbon Toolkit (FCT) There’s a rise in farmers and landowners interested in getting paid for carbon sequestration. Yet in the UK, an absence of robust guidance, protocols and industry experience makes this space feel like the “wild west”. Farmers are at risk of being misled, while NGOs and industry …
Demystifying Farm Carbon Offsetting: Three Watch-Outs For Farmers Read More »
In an industry first, farmers considering planting the carbon negative crop Miscanthus can now benefit from a finance package to cover virtually all upfront costs for crop establishment, as well as new direct, long-term offtake agreements with end-users, with 10–15-year index-linked annual returns. The new opportunity has been launched to help support the growing need …
New Miscanthus Finance And End-User Offtake Agreements Assist UK Decarbonisation Read More »
Written by IDTechEx Research Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), or carbon capture and storage (CCS), is a set of technologies used to strip carbon dioxide from industrial waste gases or directly from the atmosphere. Once the carbon dioxide is captured, it is either stored permanently underground (carbon storage) or it is used for a …
Carbon Capture Technology Faces A Difficult Few Years Read More »
Written by Jenni Dungait Soil health and flood management: New research1 led by Soil Health Expert Prof Jenni Dungait and scientists in the UK and the USA shows clear links between the last time a field was tilled, the amount of carbon in the soil, and the potential for soil to slake when wet. In …
Effect Of Farm Management On Topsoil Organic Carbon And Aggregate Stability In Water Read More »
Written by Nick Woodyat Time and time again the main topic of conversation is Nitrogen. Whether from the side of the regeneration farmer who wants to turn the tide from the toxic, expensive inputs, or from the conventional farmer who still believes in the phrase, `Nitrogen builds yield’. It is my belief that it is …
The Question Is, `Why Is Synthetic Nitrogen Burning Carbon?’ Read More »
“This interview was originally published by Rodale Institute, and is part of a series of interviews to inform their newwhite paper, “Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Carbon Solution,” published September 25th at RodaleInstitute.org/Climate2020.” A conversation with microbiologist David Johnson, PhD about the role of soil health in carbon sequestration. Rodale Institute’s updated climate change white …
Soil Carbon Sequestration Is A Natural Consequence Of Doing Things Right Read More »
Written by James Warne of Soil First Farming In the years from 1979 to 2016 there was a 97% drop in sulphur dioxide emissions to air in the UK. That’s a reduction of 6.32 million tonnes over 37 years. While the UK has made an impressive shift to clean up our atmosphere this has resulted …
Written by Becky Willson from the Farm Carbon Cutting ToolkitThe old adage of you can’t manage what you can’t measure is certainly true of carbon accounting. But when it comes to agriculture, measuring carbon isn’t as simple as it may first seem. The variation of emissions and carbon stocks are due to the fact that …
Written by Mark Measures BSc. (Hons.), IOTA (Accredited), ARAgS, Churchill Fellow 2017 of the Organic Research Centre,first Published July 2018 SOM is important and that poor rotations and lack of organic matter inputs might be something to do with their poor soil structure and static or declining yields. Organic farmers have always believed that SOM …
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