Category: Opinion

Agriculture Left Out as Congress Debates Climate and Infrastructure? [VIEWPOINT]

Congress and the President should recognize the tremendous potential for investments in soil health to deliver natural resource and other public benefits across America, financial benefits for farmers and ranchers, and economic benefits for rural communities. Soil health should not be ignored in infrastructure and climate legislation.

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Farmers Feed America While Critics Say “Let Them Fail” [VIEWPOINT]

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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