Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

Featured Projects

• Agricultural Soil Carbon in the Palouse Region

  

  The introduction and widespread application of sustainable, low-carbon farming practices have the potential to restore the fertility and ensure the longevity of one of the United States’ most important breadbaskets. Demonstrating the value to landowners of increased soil carbon stemming from these improved agricultural practices is a critical component in facilitating the large-scale adoption of such practices. To this end, this project seeks to provide a roadmap for developing large-scale, high-quality, and low-cost soil carbon transactions.

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• Avoided Grassland Conversion Carbon Project

  

  Project activities are focused on the Avoided Conversion of Grasslands in the Northern Great Plains. In the Prairie Pothole Region of Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, annual losses of native grasslands have averaged approximately 50,000 acres per year since 2007. The project will develop an Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands methodology for the carbon market, currently undergoing validation by the American Carbon Registry and the Verified Carbon Standard, which will pay landowners for the carbon benefits associated with placing their land under a permanent conservation easement.

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• Bovine Innovative Greenhouse Gas Solution

  

  The purpose of Bovine Innovative Greenhouse Gas Solutions (BIGGS) Pilot Project is to enable beef and dairy producers to create and sell voluntary carbon offsets to buyers. Our intention is for stakeholders in the U.S. beef and dairy supply chain to successfully participate in a voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) offset program that is science-based and meets their triple bottom-line needs and concerns.

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• Bringing Greenhouse Gas Benefits to Market: Nutrient Management for Nitrous Oxide Reductions

  

  The project seeks to support farmer implementation of nutrient management practices using GHG emission reduction credits, testing different models and protocols that enable the quantification and marketing of on-farm improvements.

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• Demonstrating GHG Emission Reductions in California and MidSouth Rice Production

  

  The purpose of this GHG CIG project is to 1) implement a first-of-its-kind greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction demonstration initiative with rice producers in California and Arkansas, two of the country’s leading rice-producing states and 2) analyze the demonstration's replication potential in other rice producing states including Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas.

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• Development of Protocols and Accounting Methods for Carbon Sequestration on US Rangelands

  

  We are going to (a) develop rangeland carbon accounting protocols, (b) test the protocols across a wide variety of rangeland ecosystems, and (c) conduct an analysis of the environmental and economic benefits of rangeland management practices that reduce GHG emission and increase carbon sequestration.

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• Estimating Nitrous Oxide Reductions from Nutrient Management in the Chesapeake Watershed

  

  The goal of the project is to develop and implement a greenhouse gas tool for the Chesapeake Bay watershed with the goal of reducing some of the technological and financial barriers to certifying carbon offset credits generated by nutrient management projects. 

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• Farm Smart? Management System

  

  Farm Smart™ is an innovative, integrated online management system that empowers continuous environmental, social and economic improvement for dairy producers. Its science- and practice-based resources and tools help producers reduce their environmental footprint while identifying new sources of cost savings and revenue. It also delivers benefits throughout the grass-to-glass value chain to dairy processors, retail distributors and consumers.
   

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• Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Reducing Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Tomato Systems

  

  Note that this project is not funded by a USDA CIG grant

  The completion of this project will provide strategies, i.e. best management practices (BMP), to reduce nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in tomato cropping systems by evaluating an 80 inch tomato bed configuration combined with a nitrification inhibitor delivered through subsurface drip.

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• Reducing N2O Losses from Cropping Systems for Environmental Credits with Fertilizer BMPs

  

  Evaluate the potential to develop, quantify, and market environmental credits through implementation of improved nitrogen fertilizer management to reduce nitrogen loss from cropping systems as nitrous oxide (N2O).

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