Carbon offsets

[Hamloc]

Article in Manitoba Cooperator:” Carbon offset program made for regenerative individuality.”

Monitoring of soil carbon on a farm by farm basis. Simple question if you get payed based on your soil carbon increasing what if continued monitoring shows it is starting to decrease again? Do you pay the money back? Is the land once enrolled locked into a certain management strategy forever? This would be giving the government way too much control in my opinion.

[shtferbrains]

How much pay?

[Hamloc]

How much pay?

There were no numbers in the article as far as payment, they did talk about soil sequestration numbers though.

[SASKFARMER]

If its not in the $60.00 an acre area its a waste of time.

They are paying farmers in the USA these numbers already.

If it is lower look for a liberal to be taking his share 54 and you get 6.

Its a game.

Read the fine print because you will be responsible.

[bucket]

I am wondering if the carbon price of sequestering shouldn't be correlated to the carbon tax?

As it goes up so does the value of sequestering?

I also think farmers should be able to use existing records on farming practices reported to Crop insurance to help give benchmarks for farmers payments.

[TASFarms]

Must be money in pumping carbon into the ground. Whitecap is planning on pumping 1 million tonnes a year from coop into the ground

[DaneG]

Carbon credits about as tangible and elusive as cripto currency!

[shtferbrains]

I am wondering if the carbon price of sequestering shouldn't be correlated to the carbon tax?

As it goes up so does the value of sequestering?

I also think farmers should be able to use existing records on farming practices reported to Crop insurance to help give benchmarks for farmers payments.

Isn't that the price of carbon? You buy offsets to reduce your tax?

Isn't that what Amazonis doing buying all the solar power at premium rates? Zero carbon company if you can buy enough offsets.

Look for the fertilizer companies to get involved as accumulator's as they are going to need the offsets.
Whole new buisness opprtunity for ag suppliers.

[jamesb]

From what I understand some of the vari rate outfits are going to acting as a facilitator with their customers farm data to access the dollars. Supposedly a individual farmer should be able to do the paper work themselves . https://radiclebalance.com/
these guys one of the outfits involved.
We use Decisive for our vari rate prescription. They are supposedly setting something up with Radicle to handle the carbon credit paper work. As we are already with them it should be seamless if things come together . From Decisive's website
Radicle

Carbon
Radicle and Decisive Farming are providing you with an easier way to manage your carbon and CCP credits. Instead of long paper applications Radicle has connected to My Farm Managerâ„¢ to help you sell your credits easier.

Radicle is recognized as a world leader in the field of carbon credit/offset and the largest independent offsets aggregator in Canada. Since their inception in 2008, Radicle (formerly Carbon Credit Solutions Inc.) has aggregated and sold over 1.7 million tonnes of verified carbon credits in the Alberta Offset Market.

[Sheepwheat]

Is no till the only factor? What about cat work and sc****r work? Tilling it black with the new fandangled tillage tools?

Perennial forages count for anything? Woodlots? Sloughs and marshes?

Or just no till?