![Agriculture Left Out as Congress Debates Climate and Infrastructure? [VIEWPOINT]](https://farmandlivestockdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/soil-seedling-627x376.jpg)
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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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.”
Read More![Is Carbon the ‘Crop’ of the Future? [VIEWPOINT]](https://farmandlivestockdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/Carbon-Farming-HERO-SHOT-627x376.jpg)
Increasing awareness and concern about the environment, changes in government policy, America’s re-entry into the Paris Agreement, and a robust demand for carbon offsets all point toward an appetite for a different type of agricultural crop – carbon.
Read More![The Need for Rural Broadband is Real [VIEWPOINT]](https://farmandlivestockdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/farm-silhouette-GERIC-WEB-627x376.jpg)
Broadband is an essential service, and there has been a dramatic shift toward virtual solutions for educators, healthcare providers, and businesses across the country recently. The cattle production business is shifting online too.
Read More![Farmers Feed America While Critics Say “Let Them Fail” [VIEWPOINT]](https://farmandlivestockdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/George-Washington-GENERIC-627x376.jpg)
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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