Conservation
Residue might hamper uptake, surface cover slows soil warming and most cover crops raise the carbon penalty. Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie shares timing and placement tips for phosphorus, sulfur and nitrogen.
Beyond a few marketing strategies or providing a unique product for a niche market, sustainable practices offer opportunity in what looks to be another low-priced period in the grain markets.
There are a number of practices that can create passive income on your operation, but the level of effort and investment to implement them varies.
“We are talking about fuel produced in 2025, but that is going to use the crop we are growing this year,” Mitchell Hora says.
Rick Rice, AMVAC director of application technology, says grant programs aren’t meant to forever subsidize a particular practice, but instead act as a catalyst for new participants to see its benefits.
“It’s in these challenging markets farmers need to think about driving more efficiency using technology,” says Darryl Matthews, a recently retired tech executive. Certain technologies can provide a short-term ROI.
Four-dollar corn dominated discussions, but farmers remain open to new innovations and machinery as spring planting and the promise of a new production season beckons.
The practices used during the 2024 growing season will have a direct impact on the ability to take advantage of these incentives. Mitchell Hora of Continuum Ag shares what you need to know.
The company says its year-over-year growth includes more farmers paid (215% increase in new growers), more fields enrolled (333% more new acres and a 297% increase in new fields) and more credits produced each year.
Here are the FAQs for farmers who are exploring carbon’s next chapter on the farm.