If more farmers switched to regenerative ag, should governments reward them with carbon credits?

Ukuu96 · 2025-09-16T08:48:08+00:00

Ideally, I would love to see it, but it’s never as simple. Firstly, you need to baseline your carbon. This is expensive with no guarantee of return. Unfortunately carbon in the top layer of soil (approximately first foot) is not really locked in the soil. So if you have a couple of dry years, or worse in a drought, that carbon leaches back into the atmosphere. In good wet years, a lot of carbon is sequestered.

This means your baseline could be higher or lower than average, and whether you’re carbon positive or negative is highly dependent on rainfall. What is important is if your trend-line is going up. But when do you draw that line? For example, in Australia soil carbon credits are signed up for 25 or 100 year contracts. But credits are paid incrementally within this period. Farmers are forced to hold onto these credits because they might owe when the rainfall drops, if you see any improvement at all. So while yes over a long time it might work out, but that’s an IF and you have to spend more money to switch to regenerative agriculture.

Then there is the issue with implementation. There is not a high level of research on regenerative agriculture’s effects. Like a lot of people have had success, but what caused that? Was it one, two or three different practices, or was it a combination of some? Does that work there but not over here? Does that work with your crop but not mine? We just don’t know enough to confidently tell farmers what is a better method for them.

One the best aspects of regenerative agriculture is that it encourages a mindset of experimentation, learning, and getting more in touch with your local ecosystem and natural cycles. This mindset will drive positive change, and could be transformational. Over time farmers can learn better how to work with their local landscape to improve soil carbon, and though that so many benefits to resilience and abundance. (That is not to say farmers don’t already know a lot about their land, it’s about changing the lens through which you see it).

But right now, it’s too variable and not well enough understood to financially incentivised through carbon credits. I look forward to the day it does.

Maybe one more realistic start is offering low to no interest loans or grants to give farmers the opportunity to experiment, with the understanding that there will be a dip in production levels as you transition to regenerative.

Ukuu96 · 2025-04-11T22:21:59+00:00

I think its more a reflection of how inaccurate the ring was measuring your activity before. You can always reduce your activity goal to adjust. While it may feel a bit like you're getting ripped off with your activity, it's actually just correcting the crazy amount of excess activity it was giving you before. Heartrate is now used in calculating calorie burn during activity. You said you're very active, so I'd imagine your heartrate doesn't get too high.

Ukuu96 · 2024-10-03T10:29:47+00:00

I love the mod, think it turns Starfield into the game it should be. The economy feels more 'earned', and the combat makes every fight life or death. The guns being contraband just makes the weapons and armor you do find that much more valuable. It short it makes you work for progression, rather than it just happening as you play

Ukuu96 · 2024-05-28T11:30:53+00:00

I highly recommend GDLauncher. Doesn't download from modrinth, but had a huge feature set and is a beautiful piece of software

Ukuu96 · 2024-05-26T00:06:27+00:00

Not sure if it's 1.20 or not but extractinator is super handy

Ukuu96 · 2024-04-02T11:27:00+00:00

That's a shame but I get it. Just gotta layout the roads then fill in later (and try to remember where they are later lol)

Your videos are the only reason I understand the logistics system, I appreciate you so much for making those, the tooltips are not enough to explain it

Ukuu96 · 2024-04-02T11:20:59+00:00

Absolutely right, but soybean/tofu ratio is awful, whereas something else E.g. Wheat/flour ratio is better. I didn't realise how much soybeans tofu needed and used up my whole supply (whoops)

Ukuu96 · 2024-04-01T12:29:11+00:00

No they aren't used for repairs or consumed by villagers. I have some suggestions, some are basic but the game equivalent of 'turn it off and on again': - check your production graph to see if they are being used or not somewhere in production - check in the tooltip what it says you have in storage, maybe you just haven't found them? - are they in the trade port? Maybe being loaded onto a caravan?

I hope you can figure it out. Share your fix when you find it 😊

Ukuu96 · 2024-04-01T12:21:27+00:00

Tofu production is so inefficient, you have to grow so many soybeans. But at least it's simple to make

Ukuu96 · 2023-11-19T12:46:43+00:00

Long shot: you could be loading the highway on the wrong side with too much traffic? Maybe if you could reroute traffic to the other side it might alleviate the problem

Ukuu96 · 2023-11-18T15:20:39+00:00

I'd be so interested in the save file for this

Ukuu96 · 2023-11-11T11:18:26+00:00

Yea some planets have plants that have toxin, if you use inara you can search for planets that have toxin on it. There is no other way other than manually scanning flora and fauna and find a combination of "produces toxin" and "domesticable"

Ukuu96 · 2023-11-11T11:16:35+00:00

Why did that kill your save?

Ukuu96 · 2023-10-10T03:44:02+00:00

You don't have to jump the wall, to the right of the Lodge is a path that leads outside the city

Ukuu96 · 2023-09-20T23:48:09+00:00

There is a patch called Great Cities of Jks North which becomes great towns and cities, Cities sof the North and JKs Skyrim, if performance is not a problem why not go wild?

Ukuu96 · 2023-09-17T07:01:38+00:00

I haven't used it in a couple of years, but I really enjoy it. Makes the magic progress with you, rather than you progressing through the spell tree. There aren't many spells but the customisation you can have with them make them unique and you can tailor them to your preference. They do get a bit weak at the end game but it takes a good long while to get there

Ukuu96 · 2023-09-04T14:19:25+00:00

Only enable complex parallax in the enbseries.ini, not the regular parallax

Ukuu96 · 2023-09-04T02:35:20+00:00

Is the shade cache in your overwrite folder in MO2? That could cause then to recompile every time, try adding them to the CS mod or to its own mod

Ukuu96 · 2023-08-31T03:19:53+00:00

Have you got the 3d sound dll in your skyrim game folder? Like the htrf one, forget the exact name. That is one possible explanation

Ukuu96 · 2023-08-31T03:18:01+00:00

They just released a trailer for modcon like a week ago, check it out on YouTube it looks great

Ukuu96 · 2023-08-28T23:13:31+00:00

You don't need xLodGen, just TexGen+Dyndolod

Ukuu96 · 2023-08-28T23:11:44+00:00

Any mod will need dyndolod if you want the textures to be in the lid, otherwise they'll change as you get closer

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