As of January 31, 2018, Shepherd’s Grain growers will have sequestered 116,853,160 Kg of CO2 equiv in the soil.*
*Assuming grower average is 20 years in no-till, an average farm of 2,500 acres, average of 35 farms producing for Shepherd’s Grain, with 50% of those growers in fallow-transition and the other half in annual cropping.
For every 50 lb. bag of Shepherd’s Grain flour, 1.2 Kg of carbon is sequestered in the soil by a Shepherd’s Grain farmer.*
*Sources:
1. Isaac Madsen, Ph.D. Washington State University, Dept. of Crop & Soil Science, 2018
2. Brown and Huggins, Soil carbon sequestration in the dryland cropping region of the Pacific Northwest.
2012 Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
3. Claus G. Sørensen, Niels Halberg, Frank W. Oudshoorn, Bjørn M. Petersen, Randi Dalgaard, Energy inputs and
GHG emissions of tillage systems, Biosystems Engineering, Volume 120, 2014, Pages 2-14, ISSN 1537-5110