March 23 National Agricultural Law Center webinar will provide insight on carbon contracts
Understanding carbon contracts an agriculture
March 4, 2022
By Will Clark
U of A System Division of Agriculture
Fast facts:
• National Agricultural Law Center webinar offers overview of carbon contracts.
• Webinar is March 23 at noon-1 p.m. EDT/11-noon CDT.
• Register online at: https://bit.ly/3tsEms4.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Soil carbon contracts are unlike other contracts signed by farmers
and ranchers, and present new challenges and questions. As a result, these contracts
will be the focus of the National Agricultural Law Center’s webinar, “Considering
Carbon: Understanding the Legalities of Soil Carbon Sequestration Contracts,” on March
23, at noon EDT/11 a.m. CDT.
Several programs exist that offer to pay farmers to increase the carbon levels in
their soil through no-till, strip-till, and cover cropping. In exchange for implementing
these practices, farmers agree to sell the carbon credits generated on their fields
to third-party brokers, who in turn sell those credits to industries looking to offset
their emissions and reduce their carbon footprints.
This webinar’s presenter will be Todd J. Janzen, attorney and founder of Janzen Schroeder
Agricultural Law LLC. He’ll provide an examination of these new soil carbon contracts
and explain the challenges to widespread adoption.
“For those wanting to enter the soil carbon space, this webinar will help them better
understand the challenges these contracts can create while providing strategies to
facilitate more widespread farmer adoption,” Janzen said. “Soil carbon contracts present
farmers with a new revenue stream that comes not from producing a crop, but from how
that crop is produced.”
The upcoming webinar is the next installment in the National Agricultural Law Center’s
“Considering Carbon” series, a collection of webinars, blogs, and other resources
discussing a variety of topics related to the carbon space.
You can find other “Considering Carbon” resources here: https://bit.ly/3hxPSNa.
“Recently, both USDA and private industry have become very focused on soil carbon
sequestration. The complex contracts needed to develop this market while also protecting
the landowner make this issue incredibly relevant to the ag law community,” Harrison
Pittman, director of the National Agricultural Law Center said. “Todd is a nationally
respected agricultural lawyer with tremendous experience on this issue. We’re looking
forward to him providing additional insight and clarity on carbon contracts.”
Learn more and register for the webinar here: https://bit.ly/3tsEms4.
For more information on the National Agricultural Law Center, visit https://nationalaglawcenter.org/
or follow @Nataglaw on Twitter.
About the National Agricultural Law Center
The National Agricultural Law Center serves as the nation’s leading source of agricultural
and food law research and information. The Center works with producers, state and
federal policymakers, Congressional staffers, attorneys, land grant universities,
and many others to provide objective, nonpartisan agricultural and food law research
and information to the nation’s agricultural community. The Center is a unit of the
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and works in close partnership
with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Agricultural Library.
About the Division of Agriculture
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s mission is to strengthen
agriculture, communities, and families by connecting trusted research to the adoption
of best practices. Through the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative
Extension Service, the Division of Agriculture conducts research and extension work
within the nation’s historic land grant education system.
The Division of Agriculture is one of 20 entities within the University of Arkansas
System. It has offices in all 75 counties in Arkansas and faculty on five system campuses.
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is an equal opportunity/equal
access/affirmative action institution.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate or need materials in another
format, please contact 479-575-4607 as soon as possible. Dial 711 for Arkansas Relay.
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Media contact: Will Clar, wwc001@uark.edu 479-899-2673