Comments on: Biden Bets the Farm on Climate

By: Alex Alexander

Alex Alexander — Thu, 06 May 2021 23:08:04 +0000

In reply to vinnie. So much breathlessness. Read up on it and you can get this.

By: Tracy Peschong

Tracy Peschong — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:09:27 +0000

In reply to Kim Simmons. What do you think the Paris Agreement is for? So that we can make better decisions and find solutions on a global scale.

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:29:05 +0000

In reply to Meh. Right! Big $ is what it’s all about. Not saving the environment.

By: J trawley

J trawley — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 15:16:30 +0000

In reply to Neil Havermale. Sorry, but how could we possibly get to where we need to be as quickly as we need to be without at the very least imposing some kind of cap and trade system on emitters? What’s being proposed WOULD BE voluntary for farmers. It would just impose a cap on emitters. Farmers would voluntarily participate in the credit exchanges.

By: Neil Havermale

Neil Havermale — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:41:31 +0000

I am a full-on soil carbon advocate. For those who have little understanding of farming systems world-wide agriculture is on the cusp of a technical change, elimination of tillage, as best we may. Tillage and the resulting erosion and its slow but steady reduction of living soil qualities has torn-away 30 to 40 of our heartland top soil. This condition points what many believe as an un-ending cornucopia of perpetual food and fibre. It is not. The opportunity to shift our farming systems from a degenerative condition, to sustainable, and via soil heath/soil carbon programs regenerative is the BIG DEAL. I am for voluntary soil carbon credit exchanges. The USDA or CCC and an implied cap-and-trade IMHO at this time is not the best pathway.

By: Packard

Packard — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:57:54 +0000

Joe Biden, in league with a spendthrift, yet bi-partisan Washington DC may very well bet a figurative farm on their latest fashionable globalist nonsense, but a midwest farmer would be a fool to bet his own real farm for the same.

After the reserve currency of the world is debased, the American masses will still need to eat…no matter how they voted or what political ideology they might embrace. They always do. Eventually all currencies created out of fairy dust return to fairy dust. Prime farmland, however, just waits for spring in order to reload for next falls coming bounty…if self-aggrandizing government bureaucrats, politicians, and academics do not interfere, that is.

By: Meh

Meh — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 02:12:18 +0000

But you’re missing the fact that one of the largest farmland owners in the country is Bill Gates. Yeah, now you’re getting why there’s a government payout for farming a certain method. Money connections.

By: Zeek

Zeek — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:56:44 +0000

In reply to DFWCom.

Electric cars just move the tailpipe from the car to the power plant….if we really wanted to help we would go nuclear energy and gradually phase out fossil-fueled power plants. Nuclear energy is green energy. Ag is not a big producer at 10%… but totally agree that Ag can play an important role. The work of Allan Savory needs to be considered.

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:40:31 +0000

It was touched on in the article but not fully expanded- how does this plan work for small farmers in comparison to bigger agricultural industry farms? Would it be damaging the immediate income of the small farmers to take on part of their field for carbon banking? Is it even possible for them to do so or will there be an economic buy in that makes it too steep for an individual to afford without some additional help? I guess my question can be summed up as does this allow big agriculture to just take a greater market share?

By: DFWCom

DFWCom — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 23:48:12 +0000

In reply to Zeek.

Yes, but with electric cars, the transportation sector soon won’t be producing three times as much GHG. And Ag is still a big GHG producer – at this point in our climate disaster, we need to address all large GHG sources. But you miss the main point, which is that Ag offers the possibility of sequestering carbon. As the article mentions, it’s not a slam-dunk, it will take research and innovation but soil sequestration offers a way of locking up lots of carbon, which the transportation sector doesn’t. Or maybe we should be making wooden cars?