From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
A new report says farmers could make an extra $3 billion a year by helping to produce clean energy and by offering carbon offsets to big polluters.
The CSIRO report was commissioned by a group called the Agricultural Alliance on Climate Change, which includes farming and green organisations.
It found that farmers could create carbon offsets for the big polluters and reap up to $920 million a year.
It also found that by harvesting renewable energy farmers could reap royalties from wind farms, and get an annual revenue of $250 million.
The Climate Institute's John Connor says it is a key step needed to cut greenhouse gases.
"The rural sector can play a key role in not just providing bread and butter but providing power and pruning greenhouse pollution," he said.
The study found that a renewable energy target of 25 per cent is cost effective and could deliver farmers wind royalties of up to $250 million a year....MORE
