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southern MN | Thanks for the explanation outline. Nicely done.
Maybe it will help bring down land prices and taxes around here, since notill tends to lose much more than $15, it looks like we are kind of locked out of that system.
Here the cold weather for 7 months and the saturated soils tend to stop soil degradation and mineralization for most of the year already, which I think is roughly equal to what you are talking about. Tillage is an effort to create enough nutrients to grow a crop in these conditions.
Way down south in a thin soil, those efforts you describe might be worth $30 instead of $15..... here, it doesn’t make so much sense, it’s counter to what we want for a medium to grow a crop in, and at least my 9% organic matter soils that dad and I tilled heavy since the 1950s are pretty sequestered anyhow. I’m guessing notill really wouldn’t change much, just make the ground colder, wetter and harder to grow a crop in.
And so, the program looks like a feel good, do nothing deal? It’s difficult to get behind something that doesn’t seem to accomplish anything at all. The companies that throw money at such things tend to be the ones that badmouth Ag, and so it all gets very difficult to sort out as anything positive for the world. All the while, it’s a program that will save the world from itself. I guess, somehow.
Not against you, not against others, and I know it’s up to me to ignore the program if I want and no harm no foul. I know, the money is there, take it if I want it don’t if I don’t I understand.
Just a different perspective is all, calm discussion.
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Soil Carbon Credits - Ecosystem service markets: explained with a fruit metaphor
