“Using half-truths and outright lies to belittle the farmers and ranchers who provide us with a reliable and affordable food supply is detrimental to our shared mission to protect the planet. So, let us set the record straight.”
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Rather than build a policy that works on Capitol Hill but not on the farm, 4th generation farmer Mark Isbell recommends that Congress looks to rural America to identify existing opportunities to support agriculture through smart policy. As Isbell describes it, policy ideas such as carbon markets are just “one piece of the puzzle… not the whole puzzle.”
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Farmers and ranchers have put their own health concerns aside to keep America fed during the COVID pandemic. It is hard to think that farmers were in the field harvesting at the same time, farm policy critics were ramping up criticism of the hand that actually feeds them. A Reuters columnist even went ahead and said the quiet part loud: “Let farms fail.”
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Under the false pretense of helping “actual farmers,” the EWG appeared on a recent 60 Minutes episode and stabbed actual farmers in the back, once again, by misrepresenting who benefits from farm aid.
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For millions of Americans, our sense of what is normal has been radically shifted by an unprecedented pandemic sweeping across the globe. In this time of incredible uncertainty, at least one thing is certain: America’s farmers and ranchers will keep calm and plant on.
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