Biden vows to pay farmers to plant cover crops and put land in conservation

SF ^ | 12/14/20 | Chuck Abbott

[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.

[Baynative]

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?

[Reno89519]

And people are starving!

[funfan]

They are also going to buy up or take white peoples farms and give them to black people.

[JWNM]

I believe the ultimate outcome will be to import food from China while American farmers are paid to plant nothing.

[muskah]

I doubt China will let him do that.

[hanamizu]

“Somebody who knows farming, please help me out here.”

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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!

[butlerweave]

Greenhouse gas emissions will fall when millions die of starvation

[bk1000]

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.

[OttawaFreeper]

How about building a baseball field (like in Field of Dreams)?

[Lockbox]

In February I plan to become a farmer if Joe’s President. I think we all should become farmers!

[LoveMyFreedom]

Agree!

[Bellagio]

Complete lunacy. Biden and his crisis cockroaches are brain-dead imbeciles in diapers.

[dinodino]

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.

[rktman]

Guess food production is overrated huh?

[rktman]

Kathy Buckles (SP) knows about that. Someone said she is still around someplace a while back. Anyone? Bueller?

[DCBryan1]

give them to black people.

Free fertilizer!

[Jonty30]

Just another variation of paying farmers to not grow food.

[100%FEDUP]

Just like Clinton did with cotton and tobacco!

[Pollster1]

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?

[Paladin2]

Growing corn to use as a dilutent fuel component in gasoline is criminal.