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| Dec 24, 2022 at 20:27 | history | edited | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2019 at 9:32 | comment | added | bukwyrm | @Roland That would require added mass on the ground. Usually farms will decrease mass on the ground. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 14:41 | comment | added | barbecue | @Roland no it cannot become infinite, not even in theory. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 6:28 | comment | added | Roland | @Oddthinking Soils don't get saturated with organic matter. Storage is determined by the dynamic equilibrium between input and microbial degradation. In theory it can become infinite (e.g., see peat soils). | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 3:46 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | Cattle and tractors add carbon to the atmosphere every single year. Cattle apparently adds carbon to the soil... until the soil is saturated with organic matter. Then it doesn't add any more. So, starting with arid land, cattle farming might be carbon positive for a few years, but eventually it becomes carbon negative. (Starting with forest land, cattle farming is carbon negative from day 1.) [Citation needed] | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 2:42 | comment | added | IronEagle | @Oddthinking Glaring flaw? That link shows that equilibrium - the total carbon sequestration per acre - was higher with grazing than without. Remove the cows, that 3% starts trickling back into the atmosphere. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 2:31 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @IronEagle: That's not what the first link suggests, but even if it is, the same glaring flaw in the logic applies. | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 21:39 | comment | added | IronEagle | @Oddthinking - perhaps it translates better into a 3% deepening of the organic layer in the soil. e.g. deeper topsoil? | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | Any comment on the flawed modelling that suggests they will continue to sequester 3 percentage points of organic material in the ground per year, meaning in 50 years the soil will >150% organic matter? | |
| Aug 12, 2019 at 12:37 | history | answered | SZCZERZO KŁY | CC BY-SA 4.0 |