Nebraska farmer interested in carbon markets says enrollment can be a hassle

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Nebraska farmer interested in carbon markets says enrollment can be a hassle

A Western Corn Belt farmer says she’s interested in a carbon credit program, but wasn’t sure the payoff was worth her time.

Susan Nelson tells Brownfield she began the process last year and stopped because she needed to provide six years of detailed farm data.  “They wanted like the 578 from the Farm Service Agency because that’s what was planted where.  They wanted to know what you had done for tillage. I’m trying to remember if they wanted anything to do with yields and stuff.  You needed good records or had to go through a lot of information.”

The East Central Nebraska farmer says she doesn’t think a company needs that much information. “I’m thinking now I did that for nothing and now I’m getting nothing out of it. It depends on what the paperwork will be like.  That was an awful lot of paperwork and you needed to make sure it was going to be worth the money.”

But, she says she is exploring other options. “Just need to look at the different ones and see what they have to offer and what they’re going to do with the information.”

Nelson spoke with Brownfield during the Nebraska Farm Bureau Convention.

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