Carbon credits

[bucket]

Bucket, in 2014-15, almost 25% of my farm was flooded and turned into temporary wetlands with 10ft high cattails in some spots. Without the sprayer and the shovels those areas would have remained out of production for yrs longer. Most of it took almost 3 yrs to return to production and somehow we survived on a smaller land base.

There is no way we can agree to non disturbance of land just to get some measly CCs.

I think you should have been paid to grow a crop of cattails....its still sequestering carbon...a quick mow or baled and a one pass with the drill....either way you were sequestering even in the wet years...in reality you should have been paid for sequestering...

A crop of cattails probably sequesters as much as a crop of wheat...besides they really make good bedding for the cows...

[Hamloc]

I think you should have been paid to grow a crop of cattails....its still sequestering carbon...a quick mow or baled and a one pass with the drill....either way you were sequestering even in the wet years...in reality you should have been paid for sequestering...

A crop of cattails probably sequesters as much as a crop of wheat...besides they really make good bedding for the cows...

Bucket I appreciate where you are going with your desire for carbon credits. My concern is that it would be like most government programs, you sign up and start collecting the proceeds, a few years down the road you are audited and you end up having to pay most of it back. Or you get a change in government and they decide that you are no longer eligible. What happens if you have a wet year and your fields are covered in ruts, are you going to farm over the ruts for years or till them up? Many questions. I do agree for farming in Canada to continue there will have to be government compensation for the ever increasing carbon tax!

[bucket]

Bucket I appreciate where you are going with your desire for carbon credits. My concern is that it would be like most government programs, you sign up and start collecting the proceeds, a few years down the road you are audited and you end up having to pay most of it back. Or you get a change in government and they decide that you are no longer eligible. What happens if you have a wet year and your fields are covered in ruts, are you going to farm over the ruts for years or till them up? Many questions. I do agree for farming in Canada to continue there will have to be government compensation for the ever increasing carbon tax!

I have considered this ... I would have no problem reporting what I do with my pro till for ruts with the caveat that all the other things you mentioned don't change...

And yes if I think longer.... the phucking government would make the carbon credits a taxable benefit ...

[Guest]

No *** doubt they would
Anyone that would think they could charge GST on a carbon tax ... and get away with it , well , the sky is the limit ?
Even sheeple like chuck and Dml must have trouble with that little detail ?

[fjlip]

"What happens if you have a wet year and your fields are covered in ruts, are you going to farm over the ruts for years or till them up?"

I bet at that point we will be MANDATED to turn the land over to nature, will be deemed non-ag. Go away farmer.

[RD414]

We are always looking just in our sandbox. What are examples of what others are doing in other industries and taking advantage of this.