We're Back: Carbon Markets, Choppers and Charm

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden has said he wants to pay farmers to grow cover crops and put land into conservation. How will that work? He also has big plans to reduce and capture carbon emissions, which could spell opportunities for farmers. But the science is still tenuous and the math would have to pencil out. Zach and Mitchell tap Farm Journal News Director John Herath for an overview of how the Biden administration is addressing sustainable ag and who farmers need to pay attention to. Then former USDA Undersecretary Bill Northey discusses his takeaways after serving as the first head of Farm Programs and Conservation, where he brought FSA, RMA and NRCS together under one mission area.

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0:00.0	Is it warmer in Iowa today?
0:01.7	It's beautiful in Iowa today.
0:03.4	It's 75 and sunny.
0:05.9	Oh, just like yesterday, huh?
0:07.2	Yeah, just like yesterday and the day before.
0:14.4	Welcome back, everybody, to season three of fieldwork.
0:18.9	I'm Zach Johnson.
0:20.6	I'm Mitchell Hora. Zach, I cannot believe they invite us back
0:24.4	for a third season. It is a miracle. I am just as surprised as you are, Mitchell, but here we are.
0:31.7	You would think they would learn. And of course, a big thank you to the Walton Family Foundation
0:35.5	for their support this season as well. Yeah, this is going to be a big season. Lots to talk about. Lots happening in the world
0:43.3	of agriculture and those topics are what we got to cover here on our super serious podcast.
0:49.6	Brought to you, buy farmers, four farmers. Zach, you do a wee bit of farming up north day. Yeah, I don't know
0:57.4	about you, but we just kind of grew some crop and harvested it and it was all- Just planted it,
1:01.6	and then you came back later and picked it when it was all done, and you're just on vacation
1:05.7	the rest of the time, or what? Yeah, pretty simple, not a lot of, not a lot of thought going into it. You planted it on video.
1:12.3	That's right, because the fields are now actually a studio set.
1:15.9	Oh, it's all just green screen.
1:18.1	Green screen is what you're telling me.
1:19.5	You've completely green screened your entire farm.
1:23.3	That'd be a lot cheaper.
1:25.0	No, we've continued to change things up on our farm.
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