How we treat our soils and how we produce our food will be a key for climate change mitigation in the 21st century. We either keep doing the same old practices that led us to the degradation of our soils and the depletion of nutrients, or we step into the next era of agriculture.
The era of carbon farming
We have to be climate-realistic
Climate change is a real thing and it is happenning as you read these lines. Let’s face it: we cannot reverse the effects, and we have a long way to go before we can stop the rise of temperature.
Agriculture and land use emits 17% of total greenhouse gases and its shows a decreasing tendency. However, we have to do more.
Soils can help us combat climate change
Soils are one of the biggest carbon sinks you can find on our planet. Due to agriculture, the world’s soils are losing their carbon content, which means less productive soils and more CO2 in the atmosphere.
If we are able to pump more carbon into the soils, we can compensate the emissions of other sectors and slow down the effects of climate change.
Food system’s responsibility is key
With a little change in how we treat our soils, we can sink massive amounts of carbon in them, increasing their fertility and our foods’ nutrient density, and decresing CO2 in the air at the same time.
How we decide during the 40 seasons that we got as farmers will affect another 40 and even more seasons.
Making Earth the most liveable planet
TerraX is working with farmers to build a complete system that helps us regenerate our soils to mitigate the effects of climate change and put food on 10+ billion people’s table by the end of the century.
To do this, we are helping our partners with cover crops, natural fertilizers, biological products and a state-of-the-art carbon program.
The TerraX technology
Cover crops
TerraX team’s primary focus are cover crops: we firmly believe that we can prepare the soil for the planting or drilling with roots just as perfectly as we could with steel and iron.
Beside loosening the soil and helping aggregate formating, cover crops also feed biology, both above and below ground. They help you convert your farm into a fully recycling solar powerhouse.
Thanks to the liquid carbon pathway, cover crops also help us with the carbon drawdown: they pump the absorbed carbon-dioxide into the soil where it gets converted into long-lasting forms or organic matter and humus.
Natural fertilizers
Our natural fertilizer products are based on fermented manure which is 100% weed- and pathogen-free, and contains organic nutrients which are readily available to your plants.
Thanks to their granulated form, they are easy to haul, store and apply, either with a fertilizer spreader or with a grain drill or planter. Applying organic matter as a pop-up fertilizer helps kickstart soil biology when the seedling needs it the most.
Biological solutions
Vermicompost and mycorrhizae products are here to help you with soil inoculation – a crucial step that you may need if your farm lacks livestock and manure.
Vermicompost comes from earthworm farms where they feed the little creatures a special diet which they transform into a nutrient-rich, living material with hundreds of bacteria and fungi. The extract made from this concentrated material can be applied to soil and leaf as well.
Mycorrhizae are a special fungi which act as an extended root system of the plant. They help the plant reaching water and nutrients further from the soil, and in exchange the plant supplies them with tasty sugars and carbohydrates.
Carbon sequestration
As a result of regenerative agriculture, your soil is capable of storing more carbon, which help us with immense carbon drawdown from the atmosphere.
For doing so, farmers will be compensated – CO2 credits has a market value which you can earn with regenerative techniques. Our program starts with a baseline analysis, and then it is followed by soil analysis every second year, for a total of 8 years (1 + 4 measurements).
Being able to increase the carbon level of your soils, you will receive 30 EUR / ton of CO2 sequestered.