Carbon A List, LLC
This project will execute an end-to-end supply chain strategy to deliver on both, while simultaneously optimizing the value of climate smart commodities so that farmers will realize a durable value-add and new market opportunity for their production. It aims to span commodity production supply chains, from producer to consumer, with a specific focus on programs in soybean feedstock for dairies, food grade soy and food grade oats. It also includes a large manure management program in the dairy sector, which will prioritize methane reductions. The power of existing and future investments by project partners will create scale and build trust in climate smart commodity markets, so that other supply chains across agriculture can replicate similar end-to-end strategies.
Farm Eligibility
Jun-23
CA, ID, IL, IN, KS, ND, SD, MD, MI, MN, NE, NM, NY, OH, PA, TX, UT, WI
Conservation Cover
- Conservation Crop Rotation
- Contour Buffer Strips
- Cover Crops
- Critical Area Planting
- Feed Management
- Filter Strip
- Mulching
- Nutrient Management
- Pasture and Hay Planting
- Prescribed Grazing
- Reduced- or No-Till
- Residue and Tillage Management
- Riparian Forest Buffer
- Riparian Herbaceous Cover
- Waste Separation Facility
- Wildlife Habitat Planting
To receive the Practice Implementation Incentive, fields must implement new practices or combinations of practices that are new to the field.
Money Matters
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$40-60 per ton of CO2e sequestered or reduced
Refer to program category descriptions for general stackability potential. Reach out to the program contact for more information.
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Contracting Info
First-year enrollees will be contractually obligated for five years of CSC implementation. Second year participants will be contractually obligated for four years of CSC implementation and so on.
All projects are required to include plans to (1) quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits and (2) monitor/verify those benefits over time.
Announcements to small and underserved farmers will utilize local community groups, local elevators or other influential farmer engagement channels. This project will also be communicated in ways that go beyond typical USDA communications channels as such as, but not limited to, posters on milk trucks, through agribusiness channels, and through agricultural media.
Farmers will be invited to all of Beck’s field days (5,000+ attendees annually) and Becknology days (12,000+ attendees annually), which provides CSC educational opportunities around practical farm research, ROI, and Climate Smart Markets. DNA will also provide on-farm consultation for every farm partner that is currently in DNA’s network and will work as external technical advisors for all farms enrolled into the project.
Technical Info
Carbon A List, partnered with Danone North America (DNA), Sustainable Environmental Consultants (SEC), Target, Beck’s Superior Hybrids, Inc., and University of Wisconsin
Physical soil samples will be collected by a competitively awarded contractor on each
participating farm field in the feed grade soybean and food grade soybean/oat projects. Soil samples will be initially collected in the first year of farm enrollment (year 2 of project period) and follow-up samples will be collected on the same farm in the fifth year of
project period. Remote sensing will be utilized to augment and enhance estimation of GHG benefit quantification when farm management, input purchase record, USDA county-level, and physical sample data are limited. Model or simulation approaches will include ensemble modeling methodologies to include COMET-Farm, Cool Farm Tool, and Nutrient Tracking Tool.
Verification activities will, at a minimum, verify eligibility; review project and farm data; review management systems; and verify emissions estimates. Verification will be conducted at least annually following a risk-based, hybrid assessment to conduct desktop audits, virtual site visits and farm-field site visits. Risk based assessments will be based on effects on and risks to project eligibility.
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