Project CFEO1603 was commissioned to gain an understanding of the opportunities, benefits and risks involved in emission reductions for broad acre irrigated and dryland cropping.

The eleven-month project was designed to contribute towards the completion of Objective 6 of the Carbon Farming in the Australian Cotton Industry project funded by the Carbon Farming Futures E&O Program via a grant to CRDC. Objective 6 was “Clarify to cotton industry participants the opportunities, benefits and trade-offs of participating in the ERF and/or implementing potential/sequestration options”.

Reducing emissions on farm has been hampered by a lack of technical capacity in the integration of science, practical farm management, policy context and economics. This project has filled a gap by creating economic outputs that consider all aspects of emission reduction decision making for the cotton farming system and extended the key findings to industry, government and the scientific community.