The Power of Plants to Sequester Carbon

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

With more and more evidence of climate change, some are pointing figures at agriculture, while others are realizing that farming can actually be part of the solution. Michael Ott at Cquesta says they're developing technology to leverage the natural ability of plants to sequester more carbon in the soil.

Ott... "We're working in nature-based sequestration within agriculture because this is the first example that I've seen of a way to sustainably and scalably solve some of the climate issues that are out there. And I just choose not to debate anyone, the causes of it. There are some interesting stats that, inflation-adjusted, in the eighties, there used to be $3 billion weather claims per year, weather incidents per year. In 2022, there were 18. So going from three to 18 in 20 years or in 40 years. We're getting wetter and drier in the same times. So we're either not gonna have floods for the next thousand years, or we're having more impactful flood. So all these things are happening regardless of where you think the cause is or not. And so we've got to do something about it. And that's where I want to do something that's scalable and can be done in an economically feasible and beneficial way."

Again that’s CEO of Cquesta, Michael Ott.