80 Million Reasons Not to Pay for Regenerative Farming

The Regenerative Ag Racket

Sarah Mock
The Shadow
Published in
11 min readFeb 20, 2021

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This week, the Good News Network wrote about, “The First Farmer in the US to Sequester Carbon for Cash in Private Marketplace Earns $115,000 For His Planting Strategy.” The long and short of it; a Maryland farmer who owns 10,000 acres of commodity grain cropland (corn, soybeans, and wheat) sold carbon credits to a couple of major groups in exchange for planting cover crops and limiting his tillage.

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Sarah Mock
The Shadow

Author of Farm (and Other F Words), buy now: https://tinyurl.com/4sp2a5tb. Rural issues and agriculture writer/researcher. Not a cheerleader, not the enemy.