Several Missouri farm groups are teaming up with the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium to launch a biodiversity credit program that pays farmers in the state for conservation practices.

Missouri Corn and Soybean’s Clayton Light compares the biodiversity credits to carbon or water quality credits with the program intended to help establish a market.

“And see and study the best way to develop a credit that can be certified, verified, and sold and hold up to questioning down the road,” Light said.

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