Carbon Market Offers Opportunities
Dairy farmers who are participating in projects with anaerobic-digester facilities have opportunities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions as well as benefit from carbon credits. And farmers who are considering participating in the carbon-credit market can benefit by understanding more about how their greenhouse-gas-emission footprints are measured.
They’re usually measured by three main accounting frameworks, said Patrick Wood, founder of Ag Methane Advisors of Montpelier, Vermont. Carbon markets exist for dairy farms in all three systems: Lifecycle accounting, Inventory accounting and Project accounting.