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- Owaka, New Zealand
Farm fuel cost me $12 per acre last year..
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
You should be well placed to farm tourists!Good guess, well north, and west!
Is carbon farming getting any traction in NZ?There really does need to be some serious lobbying done to secure carbon credits for any land left in permanent pasture IMO.
Trees are not the only thing that 'are green'. They look more impressive than PP, but who can eat a tree???
Livestock farmers worldwide really really need to drive this message.
I'm actually quite amazed it's not a part of the HLS already- it's not new knowledge by any means. Grassland is more of a carbon sink than forestry - so long as permanent means permanent.
There is currently work being done in Australia to accurately calculate how much $$$ is in the soil per hectare - really just needs field data.
This was on my FB just a day or two ago, hopefully some real data will change the way our politicians, public, and importantly farmers base their decisions going forward.
Downside is, those with not such 'good practices' would then have to pay for releasing it, once those figures are in the public arena.
It would probably also be the beginning of the end for soluble nitrogen fertilisers..
And the beginning of regenerative farming / continuous cover cropping/ pasture cropping, being more than just something for hippy overseas farmers to tinker with..
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It is down these ways, apart from a few "progressive" types who like to shiny-up their ploughs each year.Is carbon farming getting any traction in NZ?
No direct financial incentives as yet, hopefully something for the future though.Any payments, carbon credits, to be had in NZ? As in California, Alberta and Aus I believe?
Paris climate agreement commits signatories to increase their soil C by 0.4% /yr.
But how to measure that, and how to pay farmers....
How did you arrive at these figures? Did you use one of the established carbon calculators?For Your Interest:
The current state of play in NZ re ETS
The guy readily acknowledged that our farm was sequestering around 150% as much Carbon as relative to the equivalent area planted in exotic pine forest- even with the methane production from 10 sheep units per acre and 1 tractor hour per acre - we are well in the green here.
Thanks for your concern - we need all we can get!See I think about you guys a lot, too
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Change is on it's way, like it or not, adaptation is key to survival, and most farmers won't have to do much different to what they did yesterday except worry a whole lot less about their future on the land.
More longer term leys, edible covercropping, mob stocking, pasture cropping, just don't let the soil go without a sunhat!
Win-win?
i used do organic farming which meant i ploughed only 2 or 3 yrs in 7.I didn't actually discuss their company too much at all!
I can do a little bit of finding out, if you like?
My in-laws came from Wales (townies though) and just got citizenship last week; they still can't get over how much like Wales it looks, they say our weather here is even more fickle as a whole and miss seeing Welsh language- and speaking it- but reckon they landed in the right place..
and yes, value of a tonne of CO2 is reasonably important but the actual amounts floating around are absolutely massive!!
As a useless fact, by raising my SOM average by 1.1% in a year, my soil can hold an extra 66000 gallons of water per acre.
And it will infiltrate 130mm/hr -get 940mm/year here. Dont get surface water, that's for real! Don't have droughts, either..
So I don't need the payment incentive to truck on with it, it's a benefit in itself.
No need for thanks at all, pleased you bought it up