Paying back the carbon debt

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Rebecca Burgess, founder of the Fibershed project says that, “our soils have a carbon debt; the atmosphere is gushing with carbon. The carbon over our heads is literally in the wrong place” and this couldn’t be truer.

Biodiversity soil

Video – How do you build carbon in the soil?

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I would hope that by now most farmers have heard that building soil carbon has huge advantages. Both from a productivity and an environmental perspective. How do you go about building soil carbon?

Cows, pasture and sunlight

Carbon neutral cows

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Did you know that dairy cows can be carbon neutral? Yes, I am talking about greenhouse gas emissions neutral. I know it seems crazy.

Mutualism:What benefits the land, benefits us

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Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship that benefits all parties, which is the relationship we strive for on the dairy farms we work on.

Cows in pasture

Putting sustainable farming theory into practice

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Cows might actually be part of the solution

Cows might actually be part of the solution

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When livestock farmers manage their pasture soils in a manner that supports soil health, in association with good grazing management practices, the result is soil that has the ability to convert carbon dioxide and methane gas into stable forms of carbon in the soil.