There’s nothing wrong with dipping your toe in the carbon market before jumping in, said program managers from Corteva, Bayer and the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund (SWOF).

“The first thing you should look at is how implementing these programs would impact your farm,” said Ben Gordon, portfolio leader for carbon and ecosystems services at Corteva Agriscience, during the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation’s Carbon Credit Market webinar last week. “We suggest you look at your return on investment, talk to your advisers,...