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Local Cooperatives May Serve to Sell Farmers' Carbon Credits.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003
By Bill Hord, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 15--LINCOLN, Neb.--Farmers who yearn to sell carbon credits will apparently have to go through a middleman, and that could someday be the local cooperative.
"They already have a relationship with farmers, so it seems like a natural fit," said Gary Colliver, vice president of agronomy for Agriliance Inc., a Minneapolis-based cooperative that is a member of the new Chicago Climate Exchange.
But cooperatives and others are not ready to enroll farmers.
"I'm not going to go out and talk to people until we get a contract in hand," Colliver said.
The exchange has not yet determined the specifications for agriculture trades, said David Miller,...
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