AAEA members recent research in AEPP
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Carbon farming is emerging as a practical tool for economic resilience in agriculture. By earning carbon credits for practices like cover cropping, farmers can create a reliable secondary income stream that helps buffer against the volatility of commodity markets. This diversification is increasingly critical as farm revenues face growing uncertainty from climate shocks and price fluctuations. Positioning carbon farming as both an environmental and financial strategy offers a pathway to stabilize income while advancing sustainability goals.
In a recent article "Assessing Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Cover Crops: The Role of Implicit Costs in Alabama Cotton Fields" published in the Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, Sunjae Won and Mykel Taylor from Auburn along with Seong-Hoon Cho from University of Tennessee, look into how hidden land-use costs influence the economic feasibility of soil carbon sequestration through cover cropping in farm fields.
The authors found " Farmers can help fight extreme weather events such as drought by planting cover crops that store carbon in soil, but the economics vary widely by location among Alabama cotton fields. And Using satellite imagery and land value data, we found that implicit costs such as foregone income from double cropping or early land preparation dramatically increase the cost of carbon sequestration."
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ABOUT AAEA: Established in 1910, the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) is the leading professional association for agricultural and applied economists, with 2,500 members in more than 60 countries. Members of the AAEA work in academic or government institutions as well as in industry and not-for-profit organizations, and engage in a variety of research, teaching, and outreach activities in the areas of agriculture, the environment, food, health, and international development. The AAEA publishes three journals, the Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (an open access journal), the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, as well as the online magazine Choices and the online open access publication series Applied Economics Teaching Resources. To learn more, visit http://www.aaea.org.
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