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OHIO STATE LEADING NEW $15 MILLION PROJECT TO STUDY CARBON FARMING AS CLIMATE
CHANGE SOLUTION

Work will also yield data on soil health improvements, crop productivity

 

Sherrie Whaley Ohio State News contributor whaley.3@osu.edu

Aug 25, 2022

Taking excess carbon out of the atmosphere, where it is driving climate change,
and locking it into the soil, where it improves its health and agronomic
productivity, is the impetus behind a new five-year, $15 million project at The
Ohio State University.

Funding for the project comes from a $5 million grant from the Washington,
D.C.-based Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and about $10 million in
matching contributions from Ohio State, commodity groups, industry and other
donors. The project will measure how much organic and inorganic carbon gets
sequestered in the soil under different farming practices in key regions across
the western hempishere.

What science knows about carbon sequestration, says Rattan Lal, Ohio State
Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science, has mostly come from
simulation modeling carried out on computers, along with a limited number of
experiments in the field. 

Lal, who is a faculty member in Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and
Environmental Sciences (CFAES), will help to change that.

As principal investigator of the project titled “Enhanced Soil Carbon Farming as
a Climate Solution,” he and other researchers will take measurements directly on
hundreds of farms in Ohio, other states and even other countries under
real-world farming practices and conditions.

“Biologic carbon sequestration through farming is a potent tool in the battle
against climate change, and this generous grant from the Foundation for Food &
Agriculture Research and matching donors will fund critical work to demonstrate
how to deploy this practice to its full effect,” said Ohio State President
Kristina M. Johnson. “The Ohio State University greatly appreciates this
significant show of commitment to our land-grant tradition of service to our
state and nation by identifying solutions to some of the world’s most pressing
problems – including preserving the food supply.” 

The project will generate valuable information on how carbon farming can
mitigate climate change, improve soil health and make crops more productive,
said Cathann A. Kress, Ohio State vice president for agricultural administration
and CFAES dean. In turn, she said, it will provide that information to farmers,
land managers, OSU Extension personnel, policymakers, stakeholders, the private
sector, nongovernmental organizations and the public. 

“Through this work, we will impact policy and agricultural practices on a
national and worldwide level,” Kress said. “Under the guidance of Dr. Lal,
working with other highly regarded faculty members and researchers, we’re proud
to lead this vitally important initiative.” 

Lal and his team will measure carbon sequestration on croplands, rangelands and
grasslands, including soils used to produce a wide and representative range of
crops and animals, and soils being managed through both traditional and enhanced
carbon-farming methods.

“We want to generate actual primary data on productivity, on the efficiency of
inputs, on the benefits of conservation agriculture and sequestering carbon, and
on savings of nitrogen, water, pesticides and energy,” Lal said. He founded and
directs the CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration. 

“We’re also going to focus on evaluating and developing technology for farming
carbon, where carbon stock can be used as a farm commodity that will enable
farmers to be rewarded for strengthening critical ecosystem services,” he said. 

Lal said the project, among other things, will find out how much carbon dioxide
produced by farming can be offset by sequestering carbon in the soil. It will
determine which practices and technologies do that best for farmers. And it will
provide science-based input to policymakers on matters such as standardizing
carbon-credit pricing. 

“The goal is to make agriculture a solution” in fighting climate change and
other environment crises, Lal said. 

The project will also make agriculture more resilient in the face of these
crises, he noted. Soil contains more carbon than plants and the atmosphere
combined. And more carbon in the soil means stronger crops and a healthier
environment.

“The idea is that even as the climate is changing, agriculture will have a
buffer – better soil health,” said Lal, who has received the World Food
Prize, World Agriculture Prize, Glinka World Soil Prize and Japan Prize for his
decades of research on how soil health impacts crop productivity.

Research for the project will take place on farms in Ohio, Michigan, Georgia,
North Carolina, Kansas, Utah, Arizona and South America. Study sites will be
chosen to represent a range of crops, climates, soil types, input levels of
water and fertilizer, farming systems and ecological regions.

In addition to Ohio State, three other universities, three federal agencies and
international collaborators are involved in the project. Within Ohio State,
collaborators include Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne, associate dean of the Moritz
College of Law; Marilia Chiavegato, assistant professor of agroecosystems
management; M. Scott Demyan, assistant professor of soil and environmental
mineralogy; Klaus Lorenz, assistant director of the Center for Carbon Management
and Sequestration; Virginia Rich, associate professor of microbial ecology;
Jackie Kirby Wilkins, director of OSU Extension; and Roger Williams, associate
professor of forest management.

Additional project co-sponsors and collaborators include the Inter-American
Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, FONTAGRO, Bayer U.S. – Crop Science,
Microsoft, Cotton Incorporated, Corteva, Ohio Corn and Wheat Growers
Association, Ohio Soybean Association, Kansas Corn, United Sorghum Checkoff
Program, National Sorghum Producers, Utah Department of Agriculture & Food,
Kansas State University, Michigan State University and Utah State University.
The project will also be supported through scientific collaborations with the
USDA Agricultural Research Service, Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S.
Geological Survey and the National Agricultural Research Institute of Uruguay.
Further project support is provided by Ohio State’s Office of Research, Graduate
School, and the CFAES Office for Research and Graduate Education.




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