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Monetizing Sustainability: The business case for carbon sequestration

Cropaia

Carbon farming involves techniques such as cover cropping, reduced tillage, and the use of organic matter like compost. It can improve soil health and fertility, leading to healthier and more productive crops, and can also increase crop yields.

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These Manure Digesters Incorporate Food Scraps. Does That Make Them Better?

Civil Eats

Co-digester Benefits The co-digester produces enough liquid, organic fertilizer to meet 90 percent of the farm’s annual fertilizer needs for its hay, alfalfa, and corn crops. and we see increased crop yields. It’s a “big savings for us … and we see increased crop yields. It’s a “big savings for us.

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Rurbanization: It's Time To Make Cities More Rural

Agritecture Blog

Better municipal composting programs could also provide urban farmers with mulch so they don’t have to rely on synthetic fertilizers, which are terrible for the environment. Wheat production, for example, is highly mechanized and relies on massive harvesting vehicles. And different crops travel different distances to get to market.