Assessing Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Cover Crops: The Role of Implicit Costs in Alabama Cotton Fields

Dec 16, 2025

Carbon farming is emerging as a practical tool for economic resilience in agriculture. By earning carbon credits for practices like cover cropping, farmers can create a reliable secondary income stream that helps buffer against the volatility of commodity markets. This diversification is increasingly critical as farm revenues face growing uncertainty from climate shocks and price fluctuations. Positioning carbon farming as both an environmental and financial strategy offers a pathway to stabilize income while advancing sustainability goals.

In a recent article “Assessing Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Cover Crops: The Role of Implicit Costs in Alabama Cotton Fields” published in the Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, Sunjae Won and Mykel Taylor from Auburn along with Seong-Hoon Cho from University of Tennessee, look into how hidden land-use costs influence the economic feasibility of soil carbon sequestration through cover cropping in farm fields.

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Border View Farms is a mid-sized family farm that sits on the Ohio-Michigan border. My name is Nathan. I make and edit all of the videos posted here. I farm with my dad, Mark and uncle, Phil. Our part-time employee, Brock, also helps with the filming. 1980 was our first year in Waldron where our main farm is now. Since then we have grown the operation from just a couple hundred acres to over 3,000. Watch my 500th video for a history of our farm I filmed with my dad.

I started making these videos in the fall of 2019 as a way to help show what I do on a daily basis as a farmer. Agriculture is different from any other industry and I believe the more people that are showing their small piece of agriculture, helps to build our story. We face unique challenges and stressful situations but have some of the most rewarding payoffs in the end. I get to spend everyday doing what I love, raising my kids on the farm, and trying to push our farm to be better every year. I hope that I can address questions or concerns that you might have about farms and agriculture.