Carbon A List, LLC

Start Date

June-23

Eligible Practices

• Agroforestry / Forestry
• Buffer Strips
• Conservation Cover
• Conservation Crop Rotation
• Contour Buffer Strips
• Cover Crops
• Critical Area Planting
• Crop Rotation
• Edge-of-Field Management
• Feed Management
• Filter Strip
• Forestry Planting and Management
• Grazing and Pasture
• In-Field Management
• Irrigation
• Manure Management
• 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
• Wetlands
• Wildlife Habitat Planting

Eligible Counties (in NE)

Statewide

Payment Schedule

Does not specify

Price

$40-60 per ton of CO2e sequestered or reduced

Contract Length

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.

Data Collected at Enrollment

All projects are required to include plans to (1) quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits and (2) monitor/verify those benefits over time.

Enrollment Assistance

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.

Lead Organization

Carbon A List, partnered with Danone North America (DNA), Sustainable Environmental Consultants (SEC), Target, Beck’s Superior Hybrids, Inc., and University of Wisconsin

Outcome Estimation

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.