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Carbon Sequestration – Gaining Ground

Ed Keturakis, Vice President of Program Development at Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) and a New Mexico farmer, discusses the importance of conservation agriculture techniques in building soil health and sequestering carbon. This article was originally published on Farming First on January 2, 2020.

During the annual Borlaug Dialogue held at the World Food Prize Summit in Des Moines, this October, U.S. agribusiness industry leaders and university scientists alike agreed that a carbon-neutral agricultural sector is a laudable and achievable goal. There are two primary ways to reduce atmospheric carbon and achieve carbon-neutrality in order to reach this goal. Read more