Veteran reporter Dan Morgan has taken a hard, clear-eyed look at carbon markets for agriculture and the validity of various conservation practices aimed at fighting climate change (h/t farmpolicy.com). In the article, Mining Carbon Down on the Farm, Morgan writes of Wyoming cattle ranchers utilizing centuries-old techniques to sequester carbon:
Ranchers say they are drawing a lesson from the days when...
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The Agriculture Research Service (ARS) of the US Department of Agriculture released a surprising bit of climate change-related research on Tuesday, work that suggests that getting big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from simple changes in common farming practices may not be as easy as many hope.
The study was done by scientist Jane Johnson at the ARS North Central Soil Conservation Research Laboratory in...
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