Brief: Just 5% of US farmers plant cover crops to capture carbon, says Purdue survey
October 18, 2022
Improving soil health, controlling erosion and boosting yields are the main motivators for using cover crops on US farmland.
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How St. Louis cultivates collaboration between agtech and geospatial tech to strengthen food security
August 22, 2022
St. Louis is in many ways the point of intersection for the agtech and geospatial sectors when it comes to improving our global food system.
Benson Hill’s closed-loop system is front and center of first-ever ESG report
August 3, 2022
Less than one year after going public, crop genetics company Benson Hill discusses the role its closed-loop farming system has over all of its ESG metrics.
Brief: Agreena acquires Hummingbird Technologies to ‘strengthen the integrity of carbon farming’
July 28, 2022
Agreena will bring Hummingbird’s remote monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technology in-house to further scale and validate its carbon market.
BREAKING: ProducePay & ALLCOT announce a carbon offset program for produce growers
July 19, 2022
The forthcoming program aims to help produce growers generate residual income from carbon credits and become more resilient to climate change.
X-Centric is bringing down the time & cost of on-site soil carbon analysis
July 7, 2022
Co-founder Roozbeh Ravansari says the startup’s ‘point-and-shoot’ system can help facilitate emerging ag carbon markets and optimize fertilizer use.
Q&A: How Harry Stebbings-backed Pachama is using to tech to improve forest carbon markets
June 3, 2022
Fresh off a Series B fundraise, Pachama discusses how its technology could make forest carbon markets less fragmented and more productive.
UPDATE: Ag Carbon Market Map: Meet the 75 companies helping to harness the benefits of regen ag
May 26, 2022
Ag carbon markets are becoming more viable thanks to smart program design and innovative tech, Matthew Guinness writes.
Regrow raises $38m Series B funding to expand reach of its regen ag tech platform
May 24, 2022
Regrow will use the funds to boost its presence in “key food-producing regions across the globe,” says founder Anastasia Volkova.
Brief: Soil carbon platform Perennial raises $18m from Temasek, Bloomberg, Microsoft
May 17, 2022
The US company’s soil carbon measurement, reporting, and verification platform could help corporates better meet their emissions reductions targets.
Pachama nets $55m Series B to bring accountability to forest carbon markets
May 5, 2022
The San Francisco-based company’s platform leverages remote monitoring and AI to bring better data and more transparent accounting to forest carbon markets.
Designing carbon markets for agriculture: World Agri-Tech 2022 takeaways
March 31, 2022
Designing carbon markets was one of the many topics explored at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, held earlier this month in San Francisco
Shell & Sound Ag partner to explore carbon credit potential of nitrogen reduction
March 22, 2022
Sound Ag claims the pilot could cover 3 million farm acres, reducing up to 350,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, by 2027.
CIBO & Bushel partner to make carbon farming ‘economically viable’ for US growers
March 7, 2022
The CIBO Carbon Bridge program aims to mitigate risks farmers face when switching to carbon farming practices like no-till and cover cropping.
EXCLUSIVE: Hone brings on impact investor following $4.7m Series A for realtime soil carbon testing
February 22, 2022
It’s developing a range of services for the agrifood industries based around handheld spectrometers and AI.
Moss.Earth is using NFTs & crypto carbon credits to fight climate change in the Amazon
February 18, 2022
NFTs and other “web 3.0” tools are how the Brazilian startup plans to digitalize carbon credits and preserve the Amazon rainforest.
Carbon is not a dirty word: the case for recarbonizing our soils
February 17, 2022
Lack of understanding about the role of carbon is a problem for the future of the space, writes TerraMerra CEO Karn Manhas.
Brief: Almost 40% of purchased carbon credits are more than 5 years old
February 11, 2022
Credits generated under older, less-rigorous schemes have questionable impact – and could damage confidence in nascent carbon markets.
Collaboration & innovation key to developing farmer-focused carbon markets
January 13, 2022
Carbon markets are now a fixture in industry headlines – and Iowa is leading the way to encourage carbon sequestration in farming.
For those new to carbon markets, Land O’Lakes & Truterra offer a ‘farmer favorable’ access point
December 15, 2021
The carbon 2022 program aims to make both carbon markets and conservation practices more accessible and rewarding to a greater number of farmers in the US.
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