Compeer Managing Director of New Markets Bryan Stanek and VP of Sustainability and Carbon Markets Dr. Anil Koirala break down the complex landscape of agricultural and forestry carbon markets to help landowners evaluate enrollment opportunities. Bryan introduces Compeer's educational focus on carbon marketplace development, while Anil explains the fundamental difference between compliance markets and voluntary carbon markets. Anil reveals why integrity challenges have created skepticism around carbon credits, examining high-profile cases of over-crediting and greenwashing that made both buyers and landowners cautious. Learn how groups like the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative are establishing core carbon principles to ensure credits represent real, additional, and verifiable improvements. The episode covers soil carbon sequestration eligibility based on cropping systems, soil types, practice history, and land control, why switching from full tillage to no-till may offer carbon credit upside while existing conservation practices limit new gains, and how forestry carbon programs differ across afforestation, avoided conversion, and improved forest management project types. Anil explains why most US forestry programs focus on improved forest management through extended harvest rotations and reduced thinning frequency, the critical questions landowners should ask developers about contract transferability and fixed versus variable carbon payments, and why Compeer launched its Carbon Access Program.