Passage of a unique concept that got Congressional consideration during the writing of the 2018 Farm Bill could put more dollars in the pockets of no-tillers. It’s an idea that farmers who use no-till, cover crops and conservation-minded crop rotations to protect the soil should be rewarded with an equivalent of auto insurance’s “good driver discount” when it comes to paying crop insurance premiums.

Nebraska Extension shares the results of a study of high-carbon char as a soil amendment to increase soil carbon concentration in farm ground.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension ecologist Richard Teague continues to investigate how soil health can be improved and soil carbon increased through using Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing rather than continuous grazing.

In case you missed them, here are the items that have garnered the most interest from other farmers in the month of March.

Concerns about long-term shifts in climate patterns have led scientists to measure soil organic carbon (SOC) in agricultural landscapes and to develop methods to evaluate how changes in tillage practices affect atmospheric carbon sequestration.

Developing emissions markets to encourage farmers in poor countries to store more carbon dioxide in no-till soil should be a key topic on the U.N. climate talks agenda, global warming activist Al Gore said.