{"id":8999,"date":"2022-10-01T23:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T23:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8999"},"modified":"2022-10-01T23:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T23:55:59","slug":"hidden-inside-the-inflation-reduction-act-20-billion-to-help-fix-our-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8999","title":{"rendered":"Hidden inside the Inflation Reduction Act: $20 billion to help fix our farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Farms cover roughly 40 percent<\/a> of the country, and they\u2019ve replaced countless ecosystems with vast fields of soybeans, corn, and cattle. Agriculture also accounts for about 11 percent<\/a> of US greenhouse gas emissions.”
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“The biggest chunk of money \u2014 roughly $8.5 billion \u2014 goes toward a program run by the US Department of Agriculture called the Environmental Quality Incentives Program<\/a>. It pays for projects that restore the ecosystem or reduce emissions on farmland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmers often use the money to buy and plant cover crops. These are plants, such as clover, radishes, or rye, that are rooted in fields that might otherwise be fallow to improve the health of the soil and prevent erosion. The idea is that the ground is always \u201ccovered\u201d with something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover crops also have a range of other superpowers, said Rob Myers, director of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture at the University of Missouri. During a drought, for example, they can lock moisture in the soil; during a flood, meanwhile, they help water more easily penetrate the ground.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2022\/8\/15\/23301352\/inflation-reduction-act-farms-climate-wildlife<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Farms cover roughly 40 percent of the country, and they\u2019ve replaced countless ecosystems with vast fields of soybeans, corn, and cattle. Agriculture also accounts for about 11 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions.”<\/p>\n

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“The biggest chunk of money \u2014 roughly $8.5 billion \u2014 goes toward a program run by the US Department of Agriculture called the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. It pays for projects that restore the ecosystem or reduce emissions on farmland.
\nFarmers often use the money to buy and plant cover crops. These are plants, such as clover, radishes, or rye, that are rooted in fields that might otherwise be fallow to improve the health of the soil and prevent erosion. The idea is that the ground is always \u201ccovered\u201d with something.<\/p>\n

Cover crops also have a range of other superpowers, said Rob Myers, director of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture at the University of Missouri. During a drought, for example, they can lock moisture in the soil; during a flood, meanwhile, they help water more easily penetrate the ground.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[905,105,542,103,1523,104,1193,1316,200,906,411,279],"class_list":["post-8999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bill","tag-climate-change","tag-congress","tag-environment","tag-farming","tag-global-warming","tag-government-spending","tag-inflation","tag-law","tag-legislation","tag-policy","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9000,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999\/revisions\/9000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}