The Future of Farming
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Company deploys crushed basalt rock dust to farms for free, testing fields and using biogeochemical software to tune doses so weathering converts CO2 to bicarbonate that stores for 10,000–100,000 years. Field results show yield gains from 5% to up to 47%, plus farmers save about $100/acre on lime and receive a ~$50/acre carbon kickback; 1,300 acres are live with 40,000 acres on the waitlist and the claim is scaling croplands could capture 10 billion tons CO2/year.
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