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LinkedInSan Joaquin Valley row crop growers help control greenhouse gases
Taylor interviewed lead researcher Jeff Mitchell, UC ANR Cooperative Extension specialist and chair of the UC ANR Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation Center.
Long-term research by UC ANR has documented the capacity for farmland in the San Joaquin Valley managed with certain conservation practices to sequester carbon, results that could give farmers a seat at the carbon trading table, the article said. The study was published this month in the Agronomy Journal.
"We're reducing the atmospheric load of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that plays an important role in global warming," Mitchell said. "Proving a stable storage location for carbon could allow agriculture to be part of future cap-and-trade programs."
The ANR news release on the research was also picked up by the Central Valley Business Times, California Political Review and the Red Bluff Daily News.
Click here to listen to Doug Cooper of AgLife radio interview Mitchell about the research.
