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Eastern Colorado carbon credit workshops scheduled week of Oct. 6Colorado Farm and ranch operators interested in learning more about opportunities in the market for carbon credits from their land should plan to attend one of four workshops scheduled for eastern Colorado in early October. "The emerging carbon credits market is a new revenue opportunity for farm and ranch operators," said Lowell Mesman, an aggregation specialist with AgraGate Climate Credits Corporation. "We will walk workshop participants through the sign-up process so they can enroll their credits and begin to generate an additional return from their investment in conservation practices." Eligible practices include no-till and strip-till cropping, new grass plantings, sustainably managed rangeland, and methane destruction from livestock manure lagoons. "We'd like producers to come prepared with the necessary documents in hand," Mesman notes. "For cropland, the required paperwork includes maps of acres to be enrolled, FSA 578 forms for no-till and grass plantings. Rangeland owners should bring land maps, turn-in/turn-out dates, EQIP, CSP, ranch records and a management plan if they have one." AgraGate, a subsidiary of the Iowa Farm Bureau, is the leading aggregator of carbon credits from agriculture. On behalf of farmers, ranchers and private forest owners, the company has marketed more than 3 million carbon credits from 26 states on the Chicago Climate Exchange. The workshop dates, times and locations are: Oct. 6 --Kim: 10 a.m., at the Kim Activity Center. --Rocky Ford: 3 p.m., at the Otero County Extension office, 411 N. 10th St. Oct. 7 --Akron: 9 a.m., at the Washington County Extension office, 181 Birch Ave. --Greeley: 7:30 p.m., at Island Grove Regional Park, Room 5. 10/6/08 Date: 10/1/08 Advertisement
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