Information Sessions - Register here
You won’t want to miss these information sessions:
The Western Stock Growers’ Association with various partners are holding several information sessions in the new year.
Grassland Capital X Lunch and Learns
Western Stock Growers’ Association will share a prototype for Grassland Capital X - a grasslands conservation exchange. You will learn about how a grassland ecosystem service and biodiversity benefits can be bought and sold in a marketplace, how these benefits could be calculated in an index as well as opportunities and challenges in scaling up the prototype to a conservation marketplace.
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
February 17 - Lethbridge Coast Hotel - Completed
February 18 - Brooks Hotel - Completed
March 8th – Virtual Zoom Presentation & Discussion
March 9th - Grande Prairie Delta by Marriot Hotel
Soil Carbon Opportunites Webinar – BCarbon & Grassroots Carbon
January 20, 2022 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM - completed
B Carbon is a not-for-profit organization that began as a Soil Carbon Working Group to advance soil carbon sequestration efforts in Texas. BCarbon is redefining how soil carbon stocks can be measured for carbon credit trading. Organized by the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies the working group includes members such as landowners, government, environmental professionals, industry, philanthropists and academia.
In this webinar, you will learn about BCarbons protocols as well as their plans to achieve their goal of certifying 25 million tons of soil carbon credits by 2026.
Webinar – Soil Outlining the Soil Carbon Opportunity with MaiagRAZING, Australia
January 27, 2022 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Completed
About MaiaGrazing:
MaiaGrazing is a grazing management solution, headquartered in Australia, used by leading graziers and ranchers to drive production and profitability through the optimisation of natural capital. Based on data analytics technology, MaiaGrazing customers which include innovative graziers blazing the path into the carbon market, use the product to drive business decisions with agility. With MaiaGrazing, graziers can increase their capacity to improve planned grazing, manage feed budgets, and learn to match their stocking rate to carrying capacity with ease using our guided approach to grazing success. Find out more at www.maiagrazing.com
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Like Alberta ranchers, many graziers in Australia are already investing in improving soil health and carbon as part of their grazing management. In this webinar you will hear about how MaiaGrazing clients, such as Wilmot Cattle Co. and Cavan Station were able to improve soil carbon, and then sell their carbon credits to technology giant, Microsoft for $500,000. Maia Grazing will share the steps that kickstart a carbon project including the role of grazing management in building up soil carbon and the role of ranchers in carbon sequestration.
