Establishing Climate-Smart Commodities with Reduced Greenhouse Gas Footprints to Enhance Environmental and Economic Sustainability in the Texas High Plains

The goals of this project are to quantify benefits from these climate-smart commodities on a variety of producer field sites, estimate GHG footprint across the supply chain using COMET (carbon management evaluation tool), develop a framework to demonstrate socio-economic and environmental sustainability in the Texas High Plains and support a market for sustainably produced climate-smart cotton. Multiple producers representing 10 Texas counties have been identified within the categories of Hispanic, veteran, women, beginning farmers, and early adopters.