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The Fifth National Climate Assessment details how climate change is affecting agriculture. A new food and farm bill should help make agriculture more resilient to climate impacts.
A new bill would give farmers more incentive to use cover crops. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and .....
Opinion: Including an incentive in this year’s farm bill would be a winning move, writes Aaron Lehman.
On May 18, U.S. Representatives Sean Casten (IL-06), Elissa Slotkin (MI-07), and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Conservation Opportunity and Voluntary Environment Resilience Program (COVER) Act with original co-sponsor Representative Mike Bost (IL-12). This bill will provide a $5/acre crop insurance discount to farmers who plant cover crops to incentivize this important soil health practice, building on the federal Pandemic Cover Crop Program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and U.S. Representatives Sean Casten (D-IL-06) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI-07), along with origin