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The phrase “carbon markets” gets tossed around often during conversations about sustainability and agriculture, but how many people truly know what a carbon market is and how their farm could part,Hoard's Dairyman Intel
Purdue Center for Commercial Ag to host free webinar on carbon sequestration WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture will host a free webinar regarding the status of carbon markets and implications and possibilities for agricultural producers at 12:30 p.m. (ET) Thursday, June 24. The webinar will specifically focus on opportunities and challenges of the carbon markets in U.S. agriculture for row crop producers. “Many agricultural producers are questioning the industry’s potential role in carbon sequestration right now,” said James Mintert, profes...
Questions about agriculture’s potential role in carbon sequestration are on many ag producers’ minds these days.
White County June 1, 2021 Questions about agriculture’s potential role in carbon sequestration are on many ag producers’ minds these days. Purdue agriculture economists Carson Reeling, Nathanael Thompson and James Mintert will discuss the opportunities and challenges of the carbon markets in U.S. agriculture for row crop producers during a webinar on Thursday, June 24th at 12:30 p.m. EDT. Registration is free and can be completed by visiting the Purdue Center for Commercial Ag website at: https://ag.purdue.edu/commercialag/home/ Once registered, participants will receive a confirmation...
Folded arms and furrowed brows among frustrated farmers greeted former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) at a National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) meeting in the mid-2010s. Inglis was then a rarity among Republican legislators. He made his case for market-based solutions to mitigate the impact of human-influenced climate change. On that day, though, not many farmers wanted to hear it. “You could just feel the tension in the room, the feeling that this guy was full of it,” recalls Brandon Hunnicutt, a Giltner, Nebraska, farmer, who is involved with several NCGA boards. Many farmers skepti...