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Central Valley farmers’ new crop may be ‘carbon’
FRESNO December 17, 2007 10:52am 
• Could change plantings to react to climate-change laws • Growing carbon credit could prove profitable As scientists discuss the potential impact of global climate change, and regulators implement laws designed to slow it, farmers may find they have a new money crop: carbon credits.
At a seminar in Fresno last week, row-crop farmers learned how a new state law aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions could affect them.
A California Farm Bureau specialist says farmers may develop opportunities to obtain and market carbon credits, through their work to reduce emissions and energy use.
“The row crop is a little more complex and further down the road because a lot of the work on carbon sequestration has been done in the Midwest and not on California conditions or California crops, which is a whole different beast,” says Cynthia Cory, director of environmental affairs for the California Farm Bureau Federation.
“I know people don’t want more regulations but I’m trying to talk about the opportunities. It’s better that sit around and talk about it and figure out what works for us instead of somebody else doing it for us,” Ms. Cory says.
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