KCA: Cloud, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, and Saline counties qualify for carbon offset credits

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In cooperation with the Kansas Cattlemen’s Association, the National Carbon Offset Coalition, a Montana-based organization, will be conducting carbon offset workshops in those county areas. NCOC allows ag producers and landowners to earn income by storing carbon in their soil through no-till crop production, long-term grass seeding practices, grazing management practices, grassland, forestry, and methane capture projects.

NCOC is an aggregating member of the Chicago Climate Exchange. CCX operates North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases including CO2. NCOC enrolls landowners’ acreages of carbon projects into blocks of credits that are then traded on the exchange, much like other agricultural commodities are traded.

Large companies and other entities that are members of CCX purchase credits daily on the exchange to offset their own carbon emissions into the atmosphere on a voluntary basis. Once credits sell, landowners will earn income based on the acres they have enrolled. Today’s market price is $2.05/ton.

Cloud, Nemaha, Pottawatomie and Saline qualify for enrollment in the NCOC program for conservation tillage, ag methane, forestry, and grassland plantings. Nemaha County currently does not qualify for rangeland; however, grassland and conservation tillage, and other carbon credits are eligible in the county.

Ted Dodge, with the National Carbon Offset Coalition, will present information about the newest carbon credit opportunities which landowners can apply their acreages of carbon through 2009. Below are the rates for rangeland carbon credits in the above-identified qualifying Kansas counties.

NCOC will be conducting workshops beginning on Feb. 9 through 11. Below is the schedule and location for each workshop. All landowners and the public are invited to attend.

Feb. 9, Seneca, City Library, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Feb. 9, Wamego, Senior Center, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Feb. 10, Concordia, City Hall Community Room, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.; and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Feb. 11, Salina, City/County Building, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.; and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information about this workshop, contact Brandy Carter, Kansas Cattlemen’s Association at 785-238-1483 or Ted Dodge, NCOC executive director, is available at 406-491-4471.

Visit the NCOC website at http://www.ncoc.us for the rates and information offered in your county and for your land use type.