Carbon Farm Plan: Ocean Breeze Dairy
Project Overview
Basics
Carbon Farm Plan: Ocean Breeze Dairy
Implementation
The Dairy offers significant opportunity for enhanced capture of atmospheric carbon consistent with increased agricultural productivity, water quality and quantity enhancement, and wildlife habitat improvement. As the dairy produces organic milk, pasture health is of significant importance. Prescribed grazing, combined with rangeland compost applications will improve pasture condition and increase forage production. Over the long term, the application of compost to the pastures and silage fields on the dairy offer the greatest potential for carbon capture (11,341.9 metric tons CO2e over 40 years).
2018
2018
2023
2/27/2023
Location
Organizations
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Contacts
William Hart (william@goldridgercd.org)
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (ac.) | Conservation Practice : 381 - Silvopasture Establishment Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 2.7 acres |
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (ac.) | Conservation Practice : 393 - Filter Strip Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 0.2 acres |
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (ac.) | Conservation Practice : 380 - Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 14.3 acres |
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (ac.) | Conservation Practice : 528 - Prescribed Grazing Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 278.1 acres |
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (ac.) | Conservation Practice : 422 - Hedgerow Planting Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 2.3 acres |
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (ac.) | Conservation Practice : 342 - Critical Area Planting Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 1.5 acres |
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (ac.) | Conservation Practice : 391 - Riparian Forest Buffer Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 9.6 acres |
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (ac.) | Conservation Practice : 808 - Soil Carbon Amendment (example, compost application) Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 190 acres |
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (no.) | Conservation Practice: 313 - Waste Storage Facility Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 1 |
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (no.) | Conservation Practice: 317 - Composting Facility Operation Type: Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 1 |
| GHG Reduction (Annual) | Accounting Method: COMET-Planner Land Use: Ranch Property Ownership: Private Type of Mitigation: Sequestered | 2,860.6 tons |
| GHG Reduction (Cumulative 20 yr) Expected PM only | Land Use: Farm/Ranch Type of Mitigation: Sequestered | 57,212.9 tons |
| Planning Document | Plan Type: Carbon Farm Plan | 1 |
Reported Performance Measures
| Agricultural Conservation Practice (ac.) | |||||||
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| Conservation Practice | Operation Type | Total | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | Units |
| 391 - Riparian Forest Buffer | Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 2 | 2 | acres | |||
| 808 - Soil Carbon Amendment (example, compost application) | Dairy/Confined Animal Operation | 90 | 30 | 30 | 30 | acres | |
| Total | 92 | 0 | 32 | 30 | 30 | acres | |
| GHG Reduction (Annual) | |||||||||
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| Accounting Method | Land Use | Property Ownership | Type of Mitigation | Total | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | Units |
| COMET-Planner | Ranch | Private | Sequestered | 1,077 | 337 | 320 | 280 | 140 | tons |
| Total | 1,077 | 337 | 320 | 280 | 140 | tons | |||
| Planning Document | ||||||
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| Plan Type | Total | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | Units |
| Carbon Farm Plan | 1 | 1 | number | |||
| Total | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | number |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Total | |
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| California Healthy Soils Initiative (CDFA) | $30,000.00 | $70,000.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $100,000.00 |
| EQIP (NRCS) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $14,506.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $14,506.00 |
| Prop 1 (SCC) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $75,747.31 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $75,747.31 |
| RCPP (NRCS) | $15,000.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $15,000.00 |
| Grand Total | $45,000.00 | $70,000.00 | $90,253.31 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $205,253.31 |
| Note: | None provided |
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Project Themes
Project Themes
Building upon existing programs reducing GHGs and increasing carbon sequestration in the agricultural sector, climate-beneficial agricultural practices, as identified in the Dairy's Carbon Farm Plan (CFP), if implemented at scale, can play a key role in significantly reducing atmospheric GHG, while simultaneously improving the productivity, resilience and ecological sustainability of agricultural landscapes. Carbon farming, an array of strategies designed to promote long-term carbon sequestration, holds the potential to significantly reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases.
Improved riparian, wildlife and monarch habitat.
The project will improve farm sustainability, soil health and water quality at the Dairy. The addition of compost to the pastures and silage fields and the expansion of the riparian forest buffer reduces greenhouse gases and sequesters carbon in its soils and vegetation. The co-benefits of the work
include the increased diversity, resilience and viability of agricultural ecosystems and the improvement of ecosystem services locally for the Estero Americano watershed.
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