Earn Income From Your Regenerative Farming Practices

Improve yield and increase profitability with regenerative practices

Regenerative farming practices can improve both the quality of your soil and the profitability of your operation. Through Indigo’s innovative toolbox of solutions, we can help implement these systems on your farm. We partner with you for a seamless transition and work with you to help improve profitability.

Coming soon, Indigo Carbon will pay you for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that result from these regenerative practices. The offer will first include nitrogen management and afforestation; other regenerative practices will soon be included. We work with consumers and corporations – those looking to support sustainable land stewardship – to bring more value to this market.

Here's how it works

STEP 1: SIGN UP

Today, you can sign up to learn more about Indigo Carbon when this program launches. Later this year, you'll be able to enroll in the program.

Step 2: DILIGENCE & DATA CAPTURE

An Indigo Agronomist collects initial data to determine a baseline for Nitrogen Management and maps boundaries for Afforestation.

STEP 3: FINAL DATA CAPTURE

There are different processes for each protocol. For Nitrogen Management, an Agronomist will measure nitrogen applied at the end of the season. For Afforestation, an Indigo Agronomist will measure biomass one year after planting.

STEP 4: GET VERIFIED

Your information is verified and documented by Indigo. A random sample of growers are audited by licensed third-party carbon credit verifiers.

STEP 5: GET PAID

Indigo pays you for the carbon credits earned throughout the year and/or season.

Regenerative agriculture practices

AFFORESTATION

Get paid for sequestering carbon by planting trees on degraded land.

NITROGEN MANAGEMENT

Adopt improved nitrogen management practices to earn extra income for your soil health and reduce nitrogen runoff.

INCREASE SOIL CARBON

Earn additional revenue by participating in more regenerative practices soon – stay tuned.

How much you could earn with Indigo Carbon*

PER 30 LBS OF N REDUCED**

$16 %

PER METRIC TON OF CARBON IN 2019

$15 %

The Benefits

Improve yield and increase profitability with regenerative practices

Growers who have implemented regenerative agriculture practices have seen $50-$100/acre profitability* increases, plus other benefits such as:

Increasing yield due to weed suppression
Decreasing weather risk due to increased water holding capacity and water use efficiency
Restoring the ecosystem for future generations
Bringing more value to consumers and corporations looking to support sustainable land stewardship
Reducing input costs due to less synthetic chemical inputs
Increasing yield and decreasing input costs due to less soil erosion

The Benefits

Earn extra income for Nitrogen Management

When working with Indigo Carbon, you can better understand acres where you can scale back fertilizer application, and we will handle the paperwork and data management so you can get paid for this reduction.

Optimizing nitrogen application has other benefits such as:

Allowing your crops to thrive
Mitigating the chance of nitrogen runoff

The Benefits

Get paid for sequestering carbon through Afforestation

Unproductive acres: every operation has them. Whether you are not seeing yields like you once did, or the soil is too degraded to plant, part of your land consistently under performs and makes it challenging to raise a profitable crop. As you make a beneficial impact on the planet by planting trees, we will handle the data tracking, paperwork, and research.

Maximizing low-return, degraded land
Increasing the biodiversity of your farm

Open Quotation Mark Working with Indigo goes hand in hand with the soil-building strategy I already have in place by using top choice organic fertilizer and Indigo's microbes. I noticed a big difference between having it and not having it this year. Indigo helped grow healthier soybeans. With Indigo, I saw a lot of root mass and a much healthier plant which lead to increased yields anywhere from 5 bushes to 15 bushels.

William Palsa

Arkansas

2018

Open Quotation Mark I’ve been no-till for close to 30 years, so my soil is in good health. No one was doing no-till 30 years ago, but I used to sit in the tractor and think that every time I’m tilling I’m losing four inches of moisture. The less you can till the ground, the better off you are.

Michael Herrmann

Regenerative Grower, Kansas

2018

Open Quotation Mark Ag production today is extremely difficult — we’ve seen a lot of three-generation farms disappear. As a grandfather, there’s nothing I’d want more than to see this farm to pass on from generation to generation. On our farm, it’s important that we bridge the gap between profitability and sustainability, and that’s part of Indigo’s mission as well.

Fred Schields

Kansas

2018