Preston Brown’s family’s farm in central Illinois here he has been preparing for value-added markets that hinge on a carbon intensity (CI) score. His hope is that farmers will be able to earn premiums based on their own CI scores, with those scores tying back to practices like efficient nitrogen use, cover-cropping and conservation-tillage. This article is part of an ongoing series on climate-smart funding organized by Solutions from the Land.
Opinion: Farmer-led research is good for the planet
By Donee Boykin and Chad Fisher We come from very different places — a grazing farm in northwest Missouri (Chad) and an urban farm in Trotwood, Ohio (Donee) — but we share the same conviction: You must hold a certain love for nature and the earth to want to be a farmer. On our farms, we are...
