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Last month, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surpassed 415 parts per million<\/a>, the highest in human history. Environmental experts say the world is increasingly on a path toward a climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most prominent efforts to prevent that crisis involve reducing carbon emissions. But another idea is also starting to gain traction \u2014 sucking all that carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sounds like an idea plucked from science fiction, but the reality is that trees and plants already do it, breathing carbon dioxide and then depositing it via roots and decay into the soil. That\u2019s why consumers and companies often \u201coffset\u201d their carbon emissions by planting carbon-sucking trees elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But an upstart company, ­Boston-based Indigo AG, now wants to transform farming practices so that agriculture becomes quite the opposite of what it is today \u2014 a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By promoting techniques that increase the potential of agricultural land to suck in carbon, the backers of Indigo AG believe they can set the foundation for a major effort to stem climate change. On Wednesday, the company announced a new initiative with the ambitious goal of removing 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by paying farmers to modify their practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Called the Terraton Initiative (a \u201cteraton\u201d is a trillion tons), the company forecasts that the initiative will sign up 3,000 farmers globally with more than 1 million acres in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Perry, the company\u2019s chief executive, says he has lined up a group of buyers who will buy carbon credits \u2014 nonprofit groups as well as consumer-focused food companies that could claim their products are not merely carbon neutral, but carbon negative. Farmers will be given training and tools to institute what are known as \u201cregenerative\u201d practices. Indigo scientists will test soil samples for carbon content and farmers will be paid accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s completely outcome-based,\u201d Perry said. \u201cWe don\u2019t really care how you get there. There\u2019s no requirement to be big or small, organic or conventional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the core is the idea that plants breathe, and through the process of photosynthesis turn carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into sugars that become leaves, stems and roots. When a plant dies, decay brings organic material, a component of which is large carbon-based molecules called humic acids, into the soil and binds them to the soil\u2019s molecules. Thus the carbon is \u201ccaptured\u201d underground. The healthier and more fertile the soil, the more carbon it can store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rodale Institute, a major agricultural think tank, predicts that more than 100 percent of current annual global carbon emissions could be captured with a switch to widely available and inexpensive farming practices \u2014 such as not turning the soil over through tilling or plowing; replanting with cover crops after a main crop has been harvested; and rotating through different crops to put a variety of nutrients back in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merely planting trees won\u2019t get the world very far. Large and slower-growing trees can sequester more carbon than smaller plants, but the world faces dramatic deforestation and has enormous agricultural needs. Farming seems like a practical focus for how to mitigate growing atmospheric carbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether they can get to 1 trillion tons of carbon is unknown, Perry says, but this represents one of the largest agricultural experiments lately, with software and satellite tools available to every farmer who signs up. The goal is to find out which crops, practices and geographic locations have the ability to drive more carbon into the soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To start, Indigo will pay farmers $15 per ton of carbon, using venture capital raised by the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some farmers have already embraced the techniques. Russell Hedrick, a regenerative grower who farms non-GMO and heirloom corn, soy, barley, oats and triticale in Hickory, N.C., has been measuring the carbon in his 1,000 acres and the best he\u2019s ever done is 1.5 tons per acre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says the Indigo incentives could prove strong, especially at a time when farm bankruptcies are high and crop prices are sagging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hedrick says that in 2018, an American farmer on average lost about $60 per acre before subsidies, and made just $20 per acre after federal subsidies. So, if a farmer can put a ton and a half of carbon in each acre of soil and get paid by Indigo, they could double their profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, that would be $22 per acre, and we farm close to 1,000 acres,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is $22,000 for doing what I\u2019m already doing. That\u2019s pretty huge to me as a farmer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hedrick, a first-generation farmer, learned these practices from books and online videos from regenerative farmers. He doesn\u2019t till or plow, and he plants a cover crop within 10 days of harvesting a cash crop like corn or soy, mostly small grains with roots that can go down six feet and reduce soil compaction and help retain moisture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indigo is not the first organization to encourage farmers to prioritize putting carbon back in the soil. Iowa farmers tried it in the 1990s and the California Healthy Soils Initiative<\/a> has an incentives program that funds farmers who use practices such as compost application, mulching, no-till and cover cropping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Bradford, an expert in soil and ecosystem science at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn soil science, there are all these initiatives to rebuild carbon in soil. The problem is measurement and verification \u2014 how do we make this economically and logistically feasible?\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I\u2019m impressed by is [Indigo] has data science PhDs and they\u2019re trying to do peer-reviewable, credible science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, Bradford said the scientific community has far from a consensus on whether this is the right approach. Some wonder whether it is feasible to change farmer practices to such an extent and whether herculean efforts will result in meaningful atmospheric carbon reductions. Other scientists worry that a focus on carbon in soil will redirect attention away from minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. And still others think that building up carbon could produce more nitrous oxide gas, which is even more warming than carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one has the models or the data to determine who is right yet,\u201d Bradford said. \u201cWe have a lack of measurements. [Indigo is] doing the work on the ground to ask if this is feasible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perry said that while most farmers are sustainability-minded, it\u2019s hard to ask them to make sacrifices to sequester carbon for the good of the planet, especially in the face of so many other financial and climatic challenges. Paying them to make this a priority, he said, is the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is the only action we can take today whose impact matches the scale of the problem,\u201d he said. \u201cInstead of reducing the speed at which we approach the climate cliff .\u2009.\u2009. this enables us to start backing away from the climate cliff entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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