Farmers now have a new revenue stream to tap into courtesy of AgraGate Climate Credits Corporation. This brand new company has been formed by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. It was just officially announced this morning. Cindy has already had a chance to interview their CEO, Dave Krog.
AgraGate Climate Credits Corp. was created to expand the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) Carbon Credit Aggregation Program, which began in 2003. With more than 1,000,000 acres aggregated from American farmers, ranchers and private forest owners in 16 states, AgraGate is the nation’s leading supplier of carbon credit aggregation services to agriculture. We’re committed to helping producers take advantage of the new market in four ways. AgraGate will:
- Provide essential services that educate farmers, ranchers and forest owners about the financial opportunities available to them through carbon credits.
- Provide a means for participants to easily register their credits.
- Manage the trading program in a way that will provide superior results for participants.
- Manage a credit database system that provides highly reliable credit tracking, reporting and certification.
You can learn all about AgraGate in Cindy’s interview with Dave (9 min): agragate-krog.mp3
AgraGate Climate Credits Corporation will be sponsoring all my coverage here on AgWired at the upcoming Agricultural Media Summit! We’ll be learning more about them and what this means to producers together. I participated in their announcement today and have even more information coming shortly so stay tuned.