With assistance, agriculture can help with climate change Congress can work with farmers to sequester greenhouse gasses.
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In 2017, near the end of my 30-year tenure representing a rural, agricultural district in Congress and serving as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, I earned the distinction of being the most bipartisan member of Congress.
The success I had was a result of having real conversations with my colleagues in both parties figuring out where the common ground was among a geographically and politically diverse group of individuals.
Unfortunately, the political scene in Washington continues to be polarized. The climate change issue is no different. The loudest voices are those on both ends of the political spectrum Republicans who imagine the Green New Deal behind every environmental proposal, and Democrats who view climate change policy like a hammer
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Amid a push from the Biden administration for U.S. agriculture to help slow climate change, a new study shows farmers in the Corn Belt are dropping the ball on adopting a climate-friendly practice.
A mountain of research shows the benefits of planting cover crops from sequestering carbon from the environment to keeping waterways cleaner.
And yet, according to a new study from the Environmental Working Group, only 4.8 percent of corn and soybean acres across Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Minnesota have them.
The study utilized satellite imagery to track cover crop acres across the Corn Belt starting in 2015. It found that, while cover crop adoption has increased slightly since then, only one in 20 acres of corn and soybeans are currently protected by cover crops.
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Making our voices heard about the future of our farm and food system
By Tim Gibbons
The Missouri Rural Crisis Center (MRCC) recently sent in comments to the Biden Administration and USDA in response to their request for comments to improve and reimagine the supply chains for the production, processing and distribution of agricultural commodities and food products. Now is the time to move forward with policies that create a fairer, and more resilient and sustainable food system.
With recent disruptions in our food system, from a global pandemic that closed mega-processing plants and endangered workers and our national security, to a cyberattack on the world s biggest meatpacker, it’s time to create policies toward a more localized, decentralized, democratic food system based on independent family farms and consumers, not global corporate agri-business. It’s not hyperbole to say our national and food security and the vitality of our independent family farms and rural economi
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