Resources for Agronomists

This guide helps dairy producers and advisors navigate the complex landscape of carbon markets. It outlines key factors to consider when evaluating carbon program opportunities—such as eligibility, payment models, data requirements, and long-term commitments—so farmers can identify the programs that best fit their operations and goals. With practical questions and clear explanations, it supports informed decision-making around carbon credit generation, practice adoption, and potential revenue streams.

Manure solid-liquid separation offers a potential pathway for redistributing nutrients from livestock-intensive, nutrient-surplus regions to cropland with fertilizer demand, but the competitiveness of separated manure products with synthetic phosphorus fertilizer depends on manure quality, acquisition price, and hauling distance. NutrientChoice is techno-economic framework to evaluate separated dairy manure solids (SDMS) relative to synthetic phosphorus fertilizer under representative market and agronomic conditions and to identify transaction-level thresholds for competitive viability.