Frequently Asked Questions

Rootella Carbon has a high eligibility rate with inclusive criteria.

These include:

• 4-year commitment
• Already practicing or willing to adopt minimum tillage practices
• Use the Rootella family of products.
• Upload and monitor grower data.
• Farm landowner or equivalent.

Our current Rootella Carbon Program is designed for row crop farmers. This includes corn, soybean, cotton, and alfalfa. For more information, see our Rootella Compatibility document.

At this point, the Rootella Carbon Program is open for no-till or low-till growers, or farmers transitioning to such practices. However, we expect to open the program to all cultivation methods in the future.

Provide the past 5 years of historical agricultural land management (ALM) data, including crop rotation, field locations, fertilizer usage, and residue management.

Rootella Carbon is open to farmers with a minimum farm size of 250 acres (100 ha).

Producers with a long-term land lease can participate with landowner approval, which must adhere to the legal requirements defined by the program facilitators.

You need to provide us with initial historical agricultural land mangement (ALM) data. Subsequently, our experts will handle the remaining steps of the process.

We carry out annual Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) and Bulk Density (BD) tests, in addition to carbon modeling, to acquire a comprehensive spectrum of data. Samples are collected at a depth of 12 to 20 inches for BD and 12 inches for SOC each year, ensuring an exceptionally precise carbon measurement. This entire process comes at no expense to the grower.

Groundwork BioAg is responsible for soil sampling and lab measurements.

Growers receive up to 70% of net proceeds through a revenue-sharing model designed to optimize their earnings. Ultimate payment amount is a function of carbon credit market price, overall carbon yield across the Rootella Carbon project, and individual grower carbon yield.

Carbon credit proceeds are distributed among growers after sale of carbon credits by Groundwork BioAg. This process is dependent upon annual soil carbon measurements and verification per Verra standards. This process is estimated to take approximately two years from grower onboarding.