A Farm Journalist Tells Farmers What They'd Rather Not Hear About Climate Change : The Salt : NPR

[Karl Thidemann]

EXCERPT: During the Clinton administration, Farm Bureau was really one of the leaders in helping pitch the concept of a cap-and-trade plan that also partially would have paid farmers for sequestering carbon in soil, using the kind of practices that build organic matter. Farm organizations helped pitch this idea to the Clinton administration. By the time you get around to the debate in 2009, Farm Bureau takes a very skeptical attitude, and then starts inviting some of the strongest climate critics to become speakers at its convention.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/02/531223294/a-farm-journalist-tells-farmers-what-theyd-rather-not-hear-about-climate-change