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COVER UP: Soybean growers will be able to see just how much carbon is sequestered by planting into cover crops. The Missouri carbon pilot program will assess how carbon and water quality are measured and certified for the future of carbon markets. Missouri farmers provide a testing ground for carbon certification.
Apr 07, 2021
A new program is looking for 5,000 acres in Missouri to test how to quantify carbon and water quality.
The Missouri carbon pilot program is a partnership among the Missouri Corn Merchandising Council, the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council, MFA Inc. and Ecosystem Services Market Consortium. It offers the state’s corn and soybean farmers a low-risk opportunity to participate in a voluntary agricultural carbon and water quality market.
He put all of his acres, planted to corn and soybeans, into cover crops. That expansion was the commitment he made when he signed a one-year contract with the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund. The Fund stacks payments to farmers for the multiple benefits they provide capturing carbon in the soil, improving water quality, and other environmental outcomes. “I guess the thing I liked is that it’s got the government involved, but it’s more of a private program. It rewarded us for practices we wanted to do,” Ollendieck says. “We were looking for ways to put cover crops across all of our acres.”