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Biden vows to pay farmers to plant cover crops and put land in conservation
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| 12/14/20
| Chuck Abbott
Posted on 12/17/2020 7:53:48 AM PST by Baynative
The government will help farmers mitigate climate change by paying them to “put their land in conservation” and plant cover crops, said President-elect Biden, providing some details on his campaign call to offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. The sector accounts for roughly 10% of emissions nationwide.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; biden; climate; crops; farmers
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Somebody who knows farming, please help me out here. If 100 acres of corn or broccoli will not offset green house gasses, how will a cover crop do the job?
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:53:48 AM PST
by
Baynative
To: Baynative
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:54:48 AM PST
by
Reno89519
(Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
To: Baynative
They are also going to buy up or take white peoples farms and give them to black people.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:56:33 AM PST
by
funfan
To: Baynative
I believe the ultimate outcome will be to import food from China while American farmers are paid to plant nothing.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:57:15 AM PST
by
JWNM
To: Baynative
I doubt China will let him do that.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:57:31 AM PST
by
muskah
To: Baynative
“Somebody who knows farming, please help me out here.”
Not a farmer, but rest assured, President-Elect Joe Biden follows Science!! If he says cover crops will mitigate green house gases they will! Don’t be a Science Denier!
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:58:07 AM PST
by
hanamizu
To: Baynative
Greenhouse gas emissions will fall when millions die of starvation
To: Baynative
The FSA has been doing this for some time. I have farm land where they decided farm land wasn’t needed. They pay a conservation easement to assist us in growing timber on once-fertile crop fields. Big Farm took over and the small family farms just aren’t what they were.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:58:20 AM PST
by
bk1000
(Banned from Breitbart)
To: Baynative
How about building a baseball field (like in Field of Dreams)?
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:59:45 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: Baynative
In February I plan to become a farmer if Joe’s President. I think we all should become farmers!
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:00:32 AM PST
by
Lockbox
To: funfan
To: Baynative
Complete lunacy. Biden and his crisis cockroaches are brain-dead imbeciles in diapers.
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:00:36 AM PST
by
Bellagio
To: Baynative
Utter insanity. Soybeans is a “cover crop”—why wouldn’t you grow them?
Biden’s handlers would have us transition to Soviet-style collectivism. I can’t wait to work pulling up turnips in Turnip Collective #163.
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:01:18 AM PST
by
dinodino
( )
To: Baynative
Guess food production is overrated huh?
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:05:58 AM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: funfan
Kathy Buckles (SP) knows about that. Someone said she is still around someplace a while back. Anyone? Bueller?
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:07:08 AM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: funfan
give them to black people.Free fertilizer!
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:07:49 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
To: Baynative
Just another variation of paying farmers to not grow food.
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:08:05 AM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
To: JWNM
Just like Clinton did with cotton and tobacco!
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:08:46 AM PST
by
100%FEDUP
(I'm seeing RED!)
To: Baynative
I wonder if the payments depend on what crop you aren’t growing. Can I get more money for not growing wheat on my land than I get for not growing corn on the same land? What if I decide not to grow strawberries - does that increase or decrease my profit from not farming?
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:08:57 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: Baynative
Growing corn to use as a dilutent fuel component in gasoline is criminal.
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posted on
12/17/2020 8:11:47 AM PST
by
Paladin2
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