by BoatSurfer600
WASHINGTON – For thousands of years farmers plowed their land to plant crops, ranchers let their cattle wander the grasslands eating as they like.
That was before Microsoft or Walmart showed up in Texas farm country.
As corporations seek to appease shareholders worried about their climate impacts, they are buying up carbon credits that pay growing numbers of ranchers and farmers across the country to shift to agricultural practices that increase the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the earth.
A rancher who only allows their cattle to graze a limited amount of pasture at a time, for instance, can potentially earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in additional revenue, said Jim Blackburn, a Rice University professor who helps landowners enroll in carbon offset programs through the nonprofit BCarbon.
www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/farming-carbon-removal-soil-esg-regenerative-17867106.php