- Contract: Outlines practices to be changed
- Documentation: Demonstrates that practices were changed
- Scientific model: Converts changed practices in carbon reductions.
- Soil Testing: Sometimes used to “ground-truth” model results
- Price: What will the market pay for these carbon reductions?
- Payment: Compensation to the farm
| | Example
Program #1 | Example
Program #2 | Example
Program #3 | Example
Program #4 |
| Current price (can vary substantially) | $45/ton($6 to $24/acre for cover crops) | $6/acre for reduced-till/no-till/strip-till and $6 for cover crops | $30/ton (per acre payments depend on soil testing) | Minimum guarantee of $20/ton |
| Eligible practices | Cover crops, no-/reduced-till, N management | Cover crops, no-/reduced-till, N management | Strip/no-till and/or cover crops on corn, soy, wheat | Cover crops, no-/reduced-till, pasture/range grazing |
| Contract length | 5-year renewable | 5-year renewable + 10-yr retention | 1-yr contract + 5-yr reporting | 10-year contract |
| Already adopted a practice? | Not eligible | Practice must be adopted after August 15, 2019 | Practice must be adopted before 2021 with documentation showing practice continuity | Not eligible |
| Available in North Dakota? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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