Farm and environmental leaders say any future climate change and carbon policy and legislation needs to be voluntary and include incentives and carbon markets. American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall told the Agri-Pulse Food and Policy Summit, “The farmer is the first conservationist. We are environmentalists” adding, “We want to be treated like a partner. We want to be treated fairly.”
Rob Larew with National Farmers Union says so far, he’s concerned about how farmer-friendly some of the early carbon markets are.
