Ways to carbon farm include planting trees, retaining vegetation rather than clearing it for cropping, reducing soil tillage or improving pasture for livestock.
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The words ‘carbon farming’ and ‘carbon credits’ have been thrown around a lot in Australian farming, but confusion remains over how credits are earned and carbon is farmed.
Carbon farming is when farmers are paid to help reduce national carbon emissions by capturing and holding carbon in their plants and soil.
For many farmers, earning carbon credits is a bit of a mystery so the CSIRO has developed a one-stop app.
LOOC-C (‘look see’) allows a farmer to highlight their land on a map and generate a list of all the rebates the farm could be eligible for.
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