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1. There have been plenty of comments made of this concept of carbon farming to know there are a plethora of downfalls associated with the theory, but from this article more confirmation today with the comments by botanist Peter Latz who effectively outs himself as to being quite clueless as to how the carbon cycle works and also the impact of cattle grazing on native plants.

   If they wanted to extract more CO2 from the atmosphere via plant absorption then the best option is to have it grazed by animals as they tend to consume the fastest growing plants which require lots of CO2 to keep growing. Then once they have grazed them they need more CO2 to grow more plant material that can then be consumed also.

   Native plants are usually not that attractive to cattle so they tend not to eat them, and as they are also slow growing, the accumulation of CO2 is not as great as the faster growing plant spp. Additionally, cattle grazing can sometimes benefit native plant areas as they will eat the more competitive weeds that are growing next to the slow growing native plants, and so preserve a more pristine environment than if they were otherwise left to their own devices.