The best way to raise a big carbon crop, though, is to do what Russell Hughes did on part of his farm in Searsboro, Iowa. He stopped growing corn and soybeans on part of his farm and turned it into pasture for cattle. Grass and clover covers this ground year-round; the roots grow deep.
"In a small respect, you're going back closer to what the prairie was doing when it was here," Hughes says. |
