USDA Undersecretary Robert Bonnie says conservation and climate change will likely be a focal point of the 2023 Farm Bill debate.
He tells Brownfield the goal is to find tools that work best for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. “Practices that are going to make their operations more resilient,” he says. “Things like soil health can both sequester carbon out of the atmosphere, but can also make operations more resilient to things like drought.”
Bonnie says early in the Obama administration many farmers thought climate policy was going to be done to them and not with them.
But, he says, that mindset has changed in the last decade.
