Although farming releases greenhouse gases, it can also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help mitigate climate change.

There is a lot of talk about carbon in farming, but it can be difficult to follow the many terms and jargon being used and how they are relevant to your business.

In the latest in this series of articles, Regenerate Outcomes’ Chief Scientific Officer and sheep and beef farmer Dr Matt Jordon discusses how carbon credits can be used in the farming supply chain and the concept of insetting.

The carbon market is well established with viable opportunities for UK farmers today.

In fact, the carbon market is a lot older than many people realise and the first carbon markets emerged in the late 1990s.

However, the conversation is quite new to farming and soil carbon credits from UK farmland have only really taken off in the last 5-10 years.

There is much nervousness in the farming community about carbon markets.

However, farmers should not let this put them off getting a measured soil carbon stock baseline in place.

Many farmers think that by doing nothing, you’re keeping your options open for the future.

While this is to some extent true, it also means you’re not recording the carbon you might be sequestering now.

In the last of our series explaining how carbon credits can create additional income as part of a resilient and profitable farm business, Bill Goldie - sales adviser at environmental risk management consultant Redshaw Advisers - talks about the fundamentals of the carbon market.

As Bill explains, there are two major markets for carbon credits: The compliance market and the voluntary market.

“Regenerative agriculture, if done properly, can remove huge volumes of carbon from the atmosphere and as such generate huge volumes of removal credits,” says Bill.

Regenerate Outcomes works with Agricarbon to generate internationally recognised carbon credits which can be sold to create additional revenue.

We caught up with co-founder Annie Leeson to find out more about Agricarbon’s approach and how it ensures the carbon credits we produce are of the highest value to both carbon buyers and our farmer members.

Agricarbon achieve this through the use of an industrial scale, robotic processing facility, which guarantees a high degree of accuracy in their soil sample analysis and a high sample throughput.

Last month Regenerate Outcomes brought together a group of experts to answer your questions on the role of carbon in regenerative farming and how it can be used to generate income through the sale of high quality carbon credits.

Over the coming weeks we will be following up with a series outlining some of the key information presented by the panel.

First up is Blain Hjertass, from our mentoring partner Understanding Ag, who has been practising regenerative farming in Saskatchewan, Canada, for 20 years.