U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is looking into a federal carbon bank for farmers.
And Mark Jackson, a no-till corn and soybean grower from southeastern Iowa, is okay with that.
“As we make our jokes about government and ‘I’m here to help’ (and) that sort of thing, I think it’s important we do have a referee that allows the farmer not to be the last person to benefit financially when we’re the very first person adopting that measure.”
Jackson considers himself an early adopter of practices that sequester carbon and tells Brownfield he should have the same market opportunities as any other farmer.
