Farm support programs that target only food production miss huge opportunities to generate natural benefits, a new British study documents.

What agricultural practices have the most immediate potential for making a significant contribution to protecting our climate? Think biocarbon.

A conversation between Chad Kruger, Director of  WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture and

This blog was originally posted Nov 20, 2012 by Chad Kruger here.

The Soil Carbon Challenge is a “competition to see how fast land managers can turn atmospheric carbon into soil organic matter. If you want to find out how fast a human can run 100 meters, do you build a computer model, do a literature search, or convene a panel of experts on human physiology to make a prediction? No, you run a race. Or a series of them.”

In a world of ever increasing stress on our food and energy supplies, it makes little sense to pave farmland under sprawl, but that’s what we’ve been doing.