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Articles Tagged with ''carbon sequestration''

Sanders at the 2019 Iowa state fair

Sanders' Green New Deal looks to reshape US agriculture

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing a sweeping 10-year plan to carry out the Green New Deal and reshape U.S. agriculture through regulations and subsidies to reduce its environmental impact and push farmers into organic methods and smaller scales of production.
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No-till planting into a cover crop

Carbon projects offer lessons for farmers, lawmakers

Climate change and regulation of greenhouse gases are hot topics in Washington again, and Democratic presidential candidates are pledging to make them major issues in the 2020 election. That’s raising questions for the first time in a decade about the role that farmers could be asked to play in reducing carbon emissions, and how growers could benefit.
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