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Unlocking the soil microbiome

Envirotec Magazine

How are data science techniques helping us better understand the microbial universe of the soil? Anthony Finbow of Eagle Genomics – a firm working at the intersection of biology, data science and bioinformatics – explains, and relates how this knowledge provides a more solid underpinning for sustainable agricultural innovation.

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Inside Cargill’s experiment to pay farmers for carbon sequestration

GreenBiz

Inside Cargill’s experiment to pay farmers for carbon sequestration. Like many other food companies, it’s dedicating resources to promoting regenerative agricultural practices among the farmers and seeking ways that farms can profit from their efforts to sequester carbon dioxide. Carbon Removal. Carbon Removal.

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Continuum Ag: Helping Farmers Sequester Carbon in Soil

Clean Energy Trust

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Plowing or tilling soil has been done for thousands of years.

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Soil goods

Business Green

As the Energy Transitions Commission today argued the carbon capture and utilisation industry has a "vital but limited" role to play in the development of a net zero emission economy, both as a means of capturing industrial emissions and drawing CO2 down from the atmosphere.

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Academic paper highlights AD’s current and future carbon footprint

Envirotec Magazine

Previous work established the carbon negative position of the business and this paper now sets out the additional greenhouse gas savings that could arise from future activities. Malaby Biogas is looking at innovations to showcase and deliver ‘gas switching’.

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Wolds collaboration aims to improve water and soil quality in East Yorkshire AR

Envirotec Magazine

Soil scientist Neil Fuller launches the Sustainable Landscapes Wolds Programme with East Yorkshire farmers. A five-year collaboration is underway between Yorkshire Water and a group of innovative farmers, who are making a bid to improve water and soil quality on the Yorkshire Wolds. per cent to 6.0

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Using LIDAR data to help accelerate the move to carbon-neutral farming

Envirotec Magazine

The LIDAR data is being used to calculate above-ground carbon storage. The ARCZero (Accelerating Ruminant Carbon Zero) project has commissioned aerial mapping specialist Bluesky to record LiDAR measurements for seven commercial farms across Northern Ireland.