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Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Department of Agricultural Economics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
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Regenerative Farming Practices: How Much Carbon Do They Sequester?, Andrew M. Havens
Regenerative Farming Practices: How Much Carbon Do They Sequester?, Andrew M. Havens
Department of Agricultural Economics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Along with the recent rise of voluntary carbon markets comes potential carbon credit producers seeking reliable information on how much carbon they can expect to sequester. In this thesis a distribution of expected sequestration outcomes is constructed using cost-benefit analysis and data gathered from agronomic experiments and land-grant university crop budgets for cover crops and no-till practices. The inverse cumulative distribution of carbon sequestration outcomes from adopting a regenerative agricultural practice is visualized and the net social benefit of paying farmers to produce carbon credits is estimated. Results show that on average there is between $29.02 and $37.20 of social …