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Carbon markets are taking off, but the financial rewards may go to farms adding new practices, rather than those already drawing down carbon into the soil.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Meredith Ellis views her family\u2019s cattle ranch<\/a> in Rosston, Texas, as a giant experiment in how to store more carbon in the soil, improve water quality, and maximize biodiversity. In recent years, Ellis, who works with her father, GC Ellis, has been adding warm-season cover crops to winter wheat fields, rotating the cattle between pastures more frequently, and leaving the grass much higher to build more soil carbon and habitat for wildlife.<\/p>\n

Ellis\u2019s land, pieced together over a number of years, had several previous owners. One native pasture was severely overgrazed. \u201cAnother pasture is currently in the ICU being restored to native grasses,\u201d she says. However, in May, Ellis documented 20 different plant species in one square meter of a recovered native pasture on the ranch. And she regularly shares videos featuring crystal-clear water running off her land, bees pollinating blooming plants<\/a> on the pasture, and the owls and wild turkeys<\/a> she has spotted on the land. But it\u2019s the black, organic matter-filled soil that she\u2019s especially proud of. And she joined a pilot research project that first sampled 40 locations on her fields in 2019 to measure carbon\u2014and document grass type, soil type, the number of cattle grazing, and the weather\u2014to model carbon sequestered. They will sample the soil again at the five-year mark (in 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meredith Ellis views her family\u2019s cattle ranch<\/a> in Rosston, Texas, as a giant experiment in how to store more carbon in the soil, improve water quality, and maximize biodiversity. 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