Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called on agricultural operations to completely neutralize heat-trapping gases from farming and ranching.
“I think the time has come for the dairy industry specifically, and agriculture generally, to look at creative ways to get to a net-zero emission operation,” said Vilsack, who served as Agriculture secretary for eight years during the Obama administration. “That’s a tall order.”
Vilsack told the Senate Agriculture Committee May 21 that the Agriculture Department should launch a pilot program that would study small farms where growers are using conservation practices and measure and verify the climate ...