While Canada’s carbon market scene is far behind that of Australia and Europe, it is developing into a new economic avenue for farmers, where getting compensated for climate-smart farming practices is a real possibility. However, there remains a lot of uncertainty around this emerging opportunity. What is it? How does it work? And can it be trusted?

Host Crystal Mackay chats with Marty Seymour, CEO of Carbon RX, about agriculture’s “pineapple on pizza” debate: the carbon market.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to the Carbon Market in Agriculture
01:48 Meeting Marty Seymour
03:00 The origin story of the Canadian carbon market
04:44 Keeping politics out of the carbon market
06:05 Keeping carbon in the soil
08:05 Zero Till and Cover Crop as Foundational Practices
09:15 Measuring organic matter in the soil
10:57 Measuring carbon, collecting data, increasing fertility
12:40 Verifying the data
13:35 Monetizing the credits
14:02 Pooling Carbon Credits and Market Opportunities
15:50 How long does the process take?
17:30 The economics of carbon credits
20:00 The advantage for larger farms
23:48 The Future of the Carbon Market
24:55 Carbon insets and offsets
26:00 Marty’s motivation
29:04 Advice for Farmers in the Carbon Market

Links:
Video: Carbon Farming 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRY8hujkNMM&t=72s
Guide: Carbon Offsets for Farmers (Smart Prosperity Institute) https://institute.smartprosperity.ca/carbon-offsets-for-farmers
Blog: Demystifying Agricultural Carbon Markets (Smart Prosperity Institute) https://institute.smartprosperity.ca/AgriculturalCarbonMarkets
Video: Climate-Smart Farming Initiative - Saskatchewan Pilot Project (CANZA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5yUhR0RKv0&t=5s

Credits:

Host: Crystal Mackay https://ca.linkedin.com/in/crystal-mackay-683b26a

Producers: Meredith Martin https://twitter.com/meredithmartin and
Cara Stern https://twitter.com/carastern

Production coordinator: Rebecca Babcock https://ca.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-babcock

Music: Dustin Stern http://dustinspace.com

The Ag Podcast is produced by Generate Canada https://generatecanada.ca/ with support from Co-operators https://www.cooperators.ca/en/insurance/farm and the Smart Prosperity Institute https://institute.smartprosperity.ca/

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