Farm Bureau Federation Barely Marginally Grudgingly Kinda Sorta Acknowledges Global Warming
But no regulation of GHGs or mandates or anything else like that, cuz Freedumb.
Farmers also listened as the Farm Bureau's voting delegates adopted a handful of new climate-related positions—11 in all—a move that represents a concession of sorts for an organization that has long worked against climate policy. The group continues to question the causes of climate change and opposes any regulation of greenhouse gasses by the Environmental Protection Agency. Among the newly adopted amendments: One supporting research and education to promote soil health, a key requirement for ensuring soil's ability to capture and store carbon, and another that calls for "unbiased science-based research on climate change."
"Our members just want it to be scientifically proven," said Regan Beck, the director of government affairs for the Texas Farm Bureau, referring to the link between human activity and climate change. Also among the newly adopted amendments are a handful intended to defend agriculture against what many farmers say is an unfair villainization of their industry. One amendment called for more research to document the "beneficial impact of agricultural efforts designed to increase climate resilience." Another opposes any "laws or policies that implicate agricultural activity of any kind as a cause for climate change without empirical evidence."
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The battery of reports and growing public pressure has put American agricultural interests on the defensive. At the same time, successive weather-related disasters across the Midwestern farm belt have increasingly mirrored the science, which projects that climate change will lead to more heat, drought, extreme rain and flooding.
Last year was the wettest on record in many parts of the Midwest, prompting the government to pay roughly $9 billion in disaster aid and insurance payouts. That, along with $28 billion in bailout funds for 2018 and 2019 to compensate farmers for losses from Trump's trade war with China, helped boost farm income, despite an otherwise disastrous year. The payouts also raised more questions about the mushrooming cost of insurance and disaster bailouts as the effects of climate change worsen. Even some farmers question the public's tolerance for paying the tab. "Well, Trump's going to give us money, but how does the public take this?" said Fred Meng, a corn and soybean farmer from Troy, Kansas, referring to the latest round of trade aid. "Every time there's a disaster, we get a bailout."
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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22012020/farm-bureau-convention-trump-climate-change-regulation