Agronomy
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This whole carbon trading deal is a very dangerous deal for American Farmers. Just think, you will be signing an agreement to mitigate the pollution from these companies onto your farm, basically that is what this does. Also you will have given away almost all of your rights and freedoms on your operation. Almost all of our competitor countries like South America and South Africa are not instituti...
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Absolutely. Carbon markets are being developed to regulate behavior and continue to concentrate wealth at the top. The new green deal is coming for beef and oil and gas including ethanol. It may only be me but growing generic corn and soybeans on marginal acres will be a thing of the past in 10 years or less. How do others see this playing out?
Farmers are the greatest minority in this country ...
Met with top leadership in Memphis at their conference 18 months ago. These people are trying to steal the only remaining bits of privacy we have left on our farm. They will use the carbon market (product of the far left) to regulate our behavior on our own land. The seed treatment is a scam, the indigo transportation leg is a complete joke and their marketing team's story changes from month to mo...
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I tried their treated corn the first year. Was a joke. Most money I’ve ever spent on seed and it was a complete failure. Posted about it throughout that growing season on Twitter. Was asked by Indigo to stop posting, didn’t. Took forever to get paid by them too. Burned once. Then saw their carbon idea, checked into it to see if it was too good to be true. It is, passed on that as well.
I signed up with them. I'm not a large operation, and I planned to incorporate a number of the soil health practices anyway so I figured I may as well let them pay me a little more. I know the deadline for signing up for this year is coming up.
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I have a contract to look over, but I haven’t taken the time yet. When they talk about payment per acre, it’s over 10 years. Paying $15 per ton/acre only get $1.50 a year. Yearly measuring carbon levels in soil. I initially thought payment was for if you improved soil carbon levels, but you are paid 10% on each years current levels. The pitchman I talked to said they pull 8 acre grid samples to de...
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Thanks! Now that sounds way more believable than what little is spouted on their website. No way could I see them being financially stable paying out on $15/ton/acre every year. That's what sounded way too simple and easy money. Definitely sounds more in line payment wise like the old cap & trade rates, which they claim this is nothing even close to being but still sounds like it to me.