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@Clive can you tell us some more about it? How does it work?
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@Clive can you tell us some more about it? How does it work?
You have gates?it’s a gateway
not as ove complicated as many seem to want to make this at all
How does it work?
So they’re paying you for the carbon sequestered in the growing crop which is then going to be removed from the field as grain/straw? Or are you obliged to chop the straw? Or is it about the sequestration through cover crops etc?sold via https://www.gentle-farming.com/ which uses the comodicarbon platform to quantity and ISO certificate this seasons carbon sequestration on a field by field basis which we then sell 80% of (allows room for error / never overselling etc)
Only commitment beyond this year to not deep cultivate for 5 years (no intention of doing so anyway!) next year we will sell the sequestration from that years crops. Importantly we are selling sequestration and not storage of what’s already there
not as ove complicated as many seem to want to make this at all
The bit that concerns me is once you’ve sold those credits are you then liable for that carbon? What happens when they (the government) decide to measure/quantify the amount of carbon you have sequestered in a different way and you come up short!I don’t see the fuss, plenty of other industries selling guff and doing well, think bottled water amongst many other services - professional dog walker anyone?
More power to it I reckon, and I don’t really care if the science adds up, if these idiots are prepared to pay take the dollar of them. Fool and his money and all that.
I don't get it. Clive's still burning fossil fuels sowing, growing and harvesting crops. No one's asked about the carbon footprint of manufacturing new tractors / combines / machinery / chems / fert.
I'd get it if owners of deciduous woodland/ rain forest received payments, and maybe PP, but arable land ??
I believe the onus is on the manufacture not the end user to offset there carbon footprint.I don't get it. Clive's still burning fossil fuels sowing, growing and harvesting crops. No one's asked about the carbon footprint of manufacturing new tractors / combines / machinery / chems / fert.
I'd get it if owners of deciduous woodland/ rain forest received payments, but arable land ??
Year 1: measure OM at 500mmThe bit that concerns me is once you’ve sold those credits are you then liable for that carbon? What happens when they (the government) decide to measure/quantify the amount of carbon you have sequestered in a different way and you come up short!
Reading the link Clive has posted they are using soil OM levels to quantify carbon sequestered so what if for some reason the OM level drops from the previous year will you then have to pay out as you’ve released carbon? Personally I think it’s a mine field at present that could potentially land people in deep water.
I don't get it. Clive's still burning fossil fuels sowing, growing and harvesting crops. No one's asked about the carbon footprint of manufacturing new tractors / combines / machinery / chems / fert.
I'd get it if owners of deciduous woodland/ rain forest received payments, and maybe PP, but arable land ??