carbon

Yara, an Oslo, Norway-based global fertilizer supplier, has joined the growing list of companies offering incentives and expertise to farmers to sequester carbon in the soil and reduce emissions. By doing so, growers may be able to obtain third-party...

Phrases such as “carbon markets,” “carbon banking” or “carbon smart agriculture and forestry” may not be familiar, but they are being used to describe a means of addressing climate change that has the potential to significantly impact agriculture. These terms,...

• By Kevin Hecteman • Plans to convert nearly 200,000 acres of California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta farmland into rice production or tule-based carbon farms are being greeted with skepticism among representatives of Delta farmers. The Delta Conservancy, a state agency, has...

• By Bob Johnson • Now in its second year, a long-term project intends to learn whether rice farming in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta can succeed economically while helping to preserve the region's uniquely carbon-rich peat soils. Dawit Zeleke manages 350...