- Thanks to the growing carbon credit market, farmers nationwide can now register and sell carbon credits from agricultural practices. Carbon credits created in cropland are called Exchange Soil Offsets, or XSOs.
- Credits are being traded on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). The exchange launched trading in December 2003 in a pilot program to allow companies to purchase carbon credits to offset greenhouse gas emissions.
- The emerging market is a new revenue opportunity for farmers with continuously no-tilled fields and newly established grasslands, reforestation or new plantings on afforested land and on-farm methane digesters.
- Carbon sequestration in soil and biomass will be recognized on the CCX through credits generated by offset projects that are registered and verified on the CCX.