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Parched fields such as this may become more common as climate change affects agriculture. (DTN photo by Katie Micik)

Adapting Ag to Climate Change Farmers and Officials Look at Ways Farming May Have to Adapt 7/20 2:01PM
Farmers explained their difficulties with changing climate, while researchers laid out possible scenarios at an event Monday in Denver. The meeting was held by the Obama administration's Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.

Jason Clay, with the World Wildlife Fund, spoke to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association about the need to use agricultural land more efficiently. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)

Curbing Ag's Resource Needs Beef, Other Ag Sectors Must Produce More With Less 8/2 7:47AM
At the National Cattlemen's Beef Association summer meeting, the group held a panel discussion for the general membership on the environmental challenges beef production faces, as well as research countering some misconceptions about the cattle industry.

Continuous no-till corn sequesters large amounts of carbon, but years of heavy crop residue can require tillage. (DTN photo by Nick Scalise)

Carbon Connections - 2 Calculator Shows Little Impact on Global Warming 5/21 6:20AM
DTN Staff Agronomist makes an estimate of his farm's impact on the environment. He sees room for improvement, but is pleasantly surprised his farm is sequestering more carbon than it produces.

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Carbon Offsets, Biomass Projects Could Suffer From Oversupply

Fri Jul 23, 2010 05:57 PM CDT
Without a regulatory regime either pushing a price on carbon emissions or a drive to increase renewable electricity on a national level, agriculture likely faces a problem of oversupply in carbon offsets and biomass energy, some experts in those markets say.

Carbon Basics

Mon Dec 14, 2009 01:28 PM CST
LEGISLATION State of Legislation: The House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security bill on June 26, 2009 by a 219-212 vote.

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Tue Dec 15, 2009 02:52 PM CST
Note: This information will not be available until early 2010.

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Carbon Resources

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has several websites and activities relating to carbon and climate change:

http://www.usda.gov/…

Information on research projects relating to cropping and carbon by the National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment:

http://www.ars.usda.gov/…

USDA Fact Sheet from the Agricultural Research Service http://www.usda.gov/…

Fact Sheet on the Farm Service Agency and Conservation Reserve Program

http://www.usda.gov/…

USDA analysis of the impacts of climate change legislation on agriculture. Testimony by USDA's chief economist:

http://www.usda.gov/…

Trading Programs

Information on the Chicago Climate Exchange greenhouse gas emissions offset program

http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/…

University studies on carbon offsets, climate change and agriculture:

Kansas State University's Agricultural Economics Department conducted a comparison of various studies on the impacts of climate legislation to the agricultural sector and the economy.

http://www.agmanager.info/…

Bio-Based Energy Analysis Group and Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, both at the University of Tennessee reported that a properly crafted cap-and-trade program could boost agricultural income $209 billion by 2025. Net returns for agriculture and generate up to $13 billion in annual additional revenue for agriculture and forestry. Eight of nine crops analyzed showed higher returns. The study showed carbon offsets and bioenergy crops would also generate $364 billion more in net returns for agriculture than allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to create regulations

http://bipartisanpolicy.org/…

http://beag.ag.utk.edu/…

Duke University led a study that concluded farmers would gain more markets from climate legislation, leading to higher prices for commodities as a result. Like the University of Tennessee study, the Duke report concludes there would be more crops grown for biomass and energy production as well.

http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/…

Texas A&M's Agriculture & Food Policy Center examined how 98 different farms and ranches from across the country would perform under climate legislation from 2012 through 2016. In that study, in which carbon ranged in prices from $8.97 per ton to $13.37 per ton, 71 out of 98 farms would have lower ending cash reserves under the House climate bill relative to a baseline set for net income.

http://www.afpc.tamu.edu/…

The Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University and the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri each released reports in July examining higher costs for farmers from the climate bill.

The FAPRI report projects a typical Missouri farm would see a 3.2 percent increase in production costs by 2020. The CARD projection forecasts a 1.49 percent increase in production costs for Iowa corn and soybean growers by 2020.

http://www.fapri.missouri.edu/…

http://www.card.iastate.edu/…