2009-2010 Nebraska Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program

 

Current No-Till Pool closes JUNE 1, 2010, and is known as "NFUNT7". Contracts in this pool are for 2010-2014, with a 2009 bonus. Complete enrollment packets must be postmarked by the pool closing date.  Please contact the NEFU State Office by phone or email for assistance in getting signed up.

 

NEBRASKA COUNTIES ELIGIBLE

FOR NO-TILL/HAYED ALFALFA CARBON CREDITS

Click here for the Conservation Tillage Map

 

Zone A-51 Counties that qualify for Exchange Soil Offsets for Conservation Tillage

Irrigated rate = .6 metric tons per acre  Dryland rate = .6 metric tons per acre

Adams                         Fillmore                                    Phelps

Antelope                      Gage                                        Pierce

Boone                          Greeley                                    Platte

Buffalo                         Hall                                          Polk

Burt                              Hamilton                                   Richardson

Butler                           Howard                                    Saline

Cass                             Jefferson                                   Sarpy

Cedar                           Johnson                                    Saunders

Clay                             Kearney                                   Seward

Colfax                          Lancaster                                 Sherman

Cuming                         Madison                                   Stanton

Custer                          Merrick                                    Thayer

Dakota                         Nance                                      Thurston

Dawson                        Nemaha                                   Valley

Dixon                           Nuckolls                                   Washington

Dodge                          Otoe                                        Wayne

Douglas                        Pawnee                                    York

 

Zone B-26 Counties that qualify for Exchange Soil Offsets for Conservation Tillage

Irrigated rate = .6 metric tons per acre  Dryland rate = .4 metric tons per acre

Arthur                          Garfield                                    McPherson

Banner                         Grant                                        Morrill

Blaine                           Holt                                          Rock

Box Butte                     Hooker                                    Scotts Bluff

Boyd                            Keya Paha                               Sheridan

Brown                          Kimball                                    Sioux

Cherry                          Knox                                        Thomas

Dawes                          Logan                                       Wheeler

Garden                         Loup

 

Zone D-8 Counties that qualify for Exchange Soil Offsets for Conservation Tillage

Irrigated rate = .6 metric tons per acre  Dryland rate = .2 metric tons per acre

Chase                           Hitchcock

Cheyenne                     Keith

Deuel                           Lincoln

Dundy                          Perkins

 

Zone E-8 Counties that qualify for Exchange Soil Offsets for Conservation Tillage

Irrigated rate = .6 metric tons per acre  Dryland rate = .4 metric tons per acre

Franklin                        Harlan

Frontier                        Hayes

Furnas                          Red Willow

Gosper                         Webster  

 

 

Current Rangeland Management Pool closes JUNE 1, 2010, and is known as "NFUR5". Contracts in this pool are for 2010-2014, with a 2009 bonus. Important steps to enrollment include documenting that you have a formal grazing plan done to NRCS standards, labeled pasture maps, grazing records, and other evidence of a prescribed rotational grazing system. Please contact the NEFU State Office by phone or email for assistance in getting signed up.

 

NEBRASKA COUNTIES ELIGIBLE

FOR NATIVE RANGELAND MANAGEMENT CARBON CREDITS

Click here for the Rangeland Management Map

 

Zone LRR G 26 Counties      Zone LRR H 39 Counties

 

Arthur                                      Adams

Banner                                     Buffalo

Blaine                                       Butler

Box Butte                                 Chase

Boyd                                        Cheyenne

Brown                                      Clay

Cherry                                      Custer

Dawes                                      Dawson

Garden                                     Deuel

Garfield                                    Dundy

Grant                                        Fillmore

Holt                                          Franklin

Hooker                                    Frontier

Keya Paha                               Furnas

Kimball                                    Gosper

Knox                                        Greeley

Logan                                       Hall

Loup                                        Hamilton

McPherson                               Harlan

Morrill                                      Hayes

Rock                                        Hitchcock

Scotts Bluff                               Howard

Sheridan                                   Jefferson

Sioux                                        Kearney

Thomas                                    Keith

Wheeler                                   Lincoln

                                                Merrick

                                                Nuckolls

                                                Perkins

                                                Phelps

                                                Polk

                                                Red Willow

                                                Saline

                                                Seward

                                                Sherman

                                                Thayer

                                                Valley

                                                Webster

                                                York

 

Zone LRR G 26 Counties      Zone LRR H 39 Counties

 

Sequestering practices on non-degraded managed rangeland

.27 metric tons per acre            .20 metric tons per acre

 

Restoration of degraded rangeland

.40 metric tons per acre            .52 metric tons per acre

 

Current New Grass Pool closes DECEMBER 31, 2009, and is known as "NFUSG7". Contracts in this pool are for 2010-2014, with 2003-2009 as possible bonus years. Complete enrollment packets most be postmarked by the pool closing date.  Please contact the NEFU State Office by phone or email for assistance in getting signed up.

 

ALL NEBRASKA COUNTIES ELIGIBLE

FOR SEEDED GRASS CARBON CREDITS

 

The rate for new grasslands established after January 1, 1999 on former crop land is 1.0 metric tons per acre, even if enrolled in CRP, CSP, EQUIP, grazed, or harvested for hayAll Nebraska Counties are eligible at this rate.