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Witnesses outline challenges to farm climate plan
Source: By Marc Heller, E&E News reporter • Posted: Sunday, March 14, 2021
Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and ranking member John Boozman (R-Ark.) during a hearing yesterday. Francis Chung/E&E News
Lawmakers trying to entice farmers to save carbon in their soil will have to address a challenge if their market-based approach is going to work, witnesses told the Senate Agriculture Committee yesterday: how to recognize farmers who’ve been doing so for years.
Giving early adopters of climate-smart farming a piece of the profits from climate change programs emerged as a key issue at an Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee hearing on climate policy yesterday — and no one has quite figured out how to do that.