Farming boom threatens Biden’s climate and conservation goals

High prices for corn and soybeans, coupled with the ethanol mandate and generous crop insurance, are spurring farmers in the Great Plains to plow up native grasslands in favor of commodity crops, as Gabriel Popkin explains in FERN’s latest story, published with National Geographic. The loss of these ancient carbon sinks “poses a conundrum for… » Read More

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