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This June 17 story looks at the prospects for farmers in carbon markets - and the challenges of measuring and verifying them, in California and elsewhere.

This June 3 profile starts in Manitoba and proceeds to lay out a business case for regenerative agriculture.

This May 26 profile visits a couple who had demonstrated the case for "rewilding" and have now turned a meaningful chunk of their land into a regenerative farm.

This May 17 story visits two farmers investing in soil-health innovation before it gets to carbon-market scale.

Rachel Kyte, who helped hammer out the Paris agreement, talks through techniques to deliver robust carbon markets before (or instead of waiting until) governments make the rules. The interview requires a 7-day free trial.

This January, Environmental Defense Fund and Farmers Business Network launched the pilot Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund (RAFF). Enrolled farmers who meet soil health and nitrogen efficiency standards will access a 0.5% discount on a one-year credit line. This product, years in the making, aims to update farm financing.

This April 19 TV story from a Baltimore affiliate elucidates some water-management practice in a state where conservation finance now flows through public policy.

So five gargantuan companies are deploying $925 million for what they say are verifiable carbon-credit projects. Here's the April 13 take in GreenBiz on a new venture from Alphabet, Meta, McKinsey, Shopify and Stripe.

On March 21, the stock-ticker-watchers of CNBC turned their attention to the burgeoning regenerative-agriculture model.

This paper, published February 4, looks at how trees on grassland consistently cool areas around them in Africa and Latin America. Does that give bond buyers or BMP developers an idea or two?

Conservation Finance Network

There's Carbon in Them Thar Plots!

The Weather's Crazy, the Farmer Isn't

Having Sown Their Wild Oughts

"They Need to Hear It From Another Farmer"

Worth Reading About Worth: Kyte Addresses Voluntary Markets

The Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund's Climate-Smart Rebate

Take a Chesapeake at This

Meta and Partners Push Nearly $1 Billion Into Offsets

Cattle Don't Squawk, But Regenerative Ag Achieves "Squawk Box" Attention

Time for Seed Capital? Documenting "Silvopasture'"s Public Goods