Moving towards carbon neutral farming

Growers need to prepare for the opportunities and challenges ahead that arise from carbon emission management, particularly whether they can generate carbon credits from their operations.

The unfolding carbon situation presents new opportunities to potato growers, particularly those on mixed farms. Growers can choose between becoming more carbon neutral by reducing emissions and capturing carbon, or implementing changes on-farm to earn carbon credits.

In Issue 04 of the PotatoLink magazine, Linda Drake discusses this with Adrian James from Natural Resource Management (NRM) North, an independent not-for-profit organisation for NRM in northern Tasmania, who has been tracking the evolution of carbon farming options through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.