Carbon credit markets are nascent markets with no universally accepted standards in the US. The science that underlies carbon markets is rapidly developing and will aid in the monetization of sequestered carbon in agriculture.
Organic farmers are well positioned to take advantage of emerging carbon markets, with possibilities for added revenues with minimal changes to management in some cases.
Carbon markets are a means to achieve greenhouse gas (GHF) reductions, by incentivizing farmers and ranchers to utilize best practices aligned with carbon sequestration.
On the consumer side of carbon markets, industry is afforded an opportunity to mitigate their CO2 emissions by supporting practices that will offset their GHG emissions.
There are no national carbon markets in the US, and California is the only state with an official industry-wide cap-and-trade program. Nonetheless, U.S….
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For the week, the market was mostly higher...