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California Today: To Fight Climate Change, Heal the Ground<\/a>
\nBy:Mike McPhate<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Sheep<\/a>

Sheep grazed at a field planted with a cover crop at Skyelark Ranch in Brooks, in Yolo County. California is encouraging farmers to strengthen their soils to help draw more carbon into the ground. Credit Joe Proudman<\/p><\/div>\n

The climate change fight has focused largely on cutting emissions.<\/p>\n

But California is now considering another solution: dirt.<\/p>\n

Whereas an overabundance of carbon in the air has been disrupting our climate, plants are hungry for the stuff.<\/p>\n

The Central Valley\u2019s farmlands essentially operate as a vast lung, breathing in carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and converting it into plant tissues. That results in less of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

But the healthier the soil, the more carbon is stored in plants.<\/p>\n

Enter California\u2019s Healthy Soils Initiative<\/a>, a statewide program rolling out this summer that is the first of its kind in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a growing recognition that the soil beneath our feet has huge potential to sequester carbon,\u201d said Karen Ross, secretary of the state\u2019s Department of Food and Agriculture.<\/p>\n

More than a quarter of California\u2019s landmass is used for agriculture. Over generations, farming practices like monocropping and tillage have reduced the amount of organic matter in the soil, affecting plant growth. Some of that organic matter, which contains carbon, needs to be put back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t put carbon back in, you\u2019re kind of mining the soil,\u201d said Kate Scow, a professor of soil science at the University of California, Davis.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s initiative will give grants to farmers who take steps to reverse that nutrient loss. Those could include adding compost on rangelands or seeding fields between harvests with so-called cover crops such as grasses and mustards, which add organic matter to the soil.<\/p>\n

State officials say such measures could eliminate from the air the equivalent of millions of tons of carbon dioxide a year.<\/p>\n

For now, the soils initiative is funded with just $7.5 million, a drop in the bucket for a state with more than 76,000 farms. But officials hope it can be expanded after demonstrating enough interest from farmers.<\/p>\n

To that end, they\u2019ve pushed the program as a win-win by citing evidence showing healthy soils produce higher yields.<\/p>\n

But many unknowns still need to be sorted out, said Cynthia Cory, director of environmental affairs for the California Farm Bureau Federation.<\/p>\n

California agricultural is dizzyingly varied. More than 230 crops spring from the Central Valley alone.<\/p>\n

Even if the new measures are good for yields, whether they justify a farm\u2019s time, labor and expense depends on its unique circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to try it,\u201d Ms. Cory said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if bad or good is the question. It\u2019s just, \u2018Is it worth it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Also, hear CDFA Secretary Karen Ross discuss the Healthy Soils Initiative – courtesy of 89.3 KPCC, Los Angeles<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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