Pilot projects offer a way for USDA to gather more information on encouraging climate mitigation strategies.
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As efforts intensify on climate mitigation and encouraging adaptation strategies, one topic commonly discussed is a USDA carbon bank. But what is it and how would it work?
These are questions many are asking, but actually haven’t been formulated as the Biden administration, including as it relates to farmers under the leadership of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, looks to encourage and incentivize practices at the farm level that could benefit the environment.
Bill Hohenstein, director of the Office of Energy and Environmental Policy in USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist, says when you think about a carbon bank, it’s a loose term that continues to be fleshed out as USDA looks at comments received under a recent request on the agency’s climate strategy.
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Wary US farmers weigh up joining Biden’s climate fight Source: By Jack Graham, Reuters • Posted: Monday, March 15, 2021
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Garrett Riekhof’s family has farmed crops like corn and soybeans near the Missouri town of Higginsville since his ancestors arrived there from Germany over a century ago.
“I’m still farming that exact piece of dirt,” the 39-year-old, a fifth-generation Midwestern farmer, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “If that’s not sustainable, I need somebody to teach me why it’s not.”
President Joe Biden’s administration has said it aims to make U.S. farming greener as a key part of its broader push to swiftly curb planet-heating emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Farmers say transitioning to greener practices is expensive, and more research and support will be needed
By Jack Graham
March 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Garrett Riekhof’s family has farmed crops like corn and soybeans near the Missouri town of Higginsville since his ancestors arrived there from Germany over a century ago.
“I’m still farming that exact piece of dirt,” the 39-year-old, a fifth-generation Midwestern farmer, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “If that’s not sustainable, I need somebody to teach me why it’s not.”
President Joe Biden’s administration has said it aims to make U.S. farming greener as a key part of its broader push to swiftly curb planet-heating emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Reforms to agricultural practices will be necessary to fight climate change. But anything proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden will need buy-in from farmers – many of whom don’t support him politically and say they don’t have money to spare on new farming practices.