Carbon credits help Texas ranchers, farmers keep fields, pocket books green
As corporations seek to appease shareholders worried about their climate impacts, they are buying up carbon credits that pay growing numbers of ranchers and farmers across the country to shift to agricultural practices that increase the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the earth.
But modern agriculture practices generally cause that carbon to be released back into the atmosphere. If a farmer instead forgoes plowing and instead injects seeds into the soil or plants cover crops such as alfalfa and barley in the winter, they not only keep the carbon in the ground but potentially increase the rate of carbon absorption.
“We move those cattle every day systematically so they’re only grazing the top half of the grass,” he said. “Cattle are kind of like we are. There’s different grasses out there, and there’s certain grasses they like more than others and they eat those right down to the ground if you let them.” “Most scientists won’t believe it,” he said. “They’re measuring broken soil systems that have been destroyed by tilling and fertilizer. We’re trying to support how nature built soil, and when we start to gain soil function, we start to accumulate carbon much faster.”
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