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As soon as you plow, you're releasing carbon.

Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.

If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.

Either you abandon fossil fuels, or you find a way to get that carbon back.