Nori Marketplace

Farmers who have already adopted minimum tillage, plant cover crops, or extend their crop rotations can make money from the Nori carbon removal program.

About the program:

• Regenerative farming practices since 2011
• Cover crops, diverse crop rotations, reduced tillage, and others
• Four-year carbon credit look-back period
• No soil samples, only modeling based on the past 30 years of data
• Farmer pays $3,000 to $5,000 for a third-party auditor to verify practices 10-year contract

Program Differentiators

Nori stands out as a marketplace that brings buyers to the table to purchase from farmers directly.

"We want to make incremental differences in CO2 in the atmosphere moving forward, but we also need to help farmers who have already started. The look-back period and the starting year of 2011 casts a wider net for farmers who are the known experts to be paid," says Rebekah Carlson, agriculture supply lead at Nori.

Carbon Farmer

"Carbon markets are a really good source for farmers to move to a more regenerative practice," says Angela Knuth from Mead, Nebraska, who farms GMO and non-GMO corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa, and oats. Knuth enrolled in Nori in 2021 and uses a variety of conservation practices on her farm, including cover crops, no-till cash crops, and split applies fertilizer. "I also think carbon markets are useful to help farmers make money off of their data and show them the importance of it."

By the Numbers

Nori has paid over $1.8 million to 17 farmers, accounting for 117,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions removed.