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Soon after Vice President Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz as her running mate this week, pictures of the Minnesota governor began to spread across social media\u2014of Walz holding a piglet<\/a>, of Walz on thrill rides at the state fair<\/a>, of Walz and his rescue dog<\/a>. <\/p><\/div>

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All of it coalesces into an image of a guy with rural roots and deep ties to agriculture.<\/p>\n

Since Harris\u2019 announcement, climate advocates have applauded<\/a> her pick, pointing to Walz\u2019s solid climate bona fides<\/a>. Farm groups across the political spectrum, including those that work to shrink agriculture\u2019s carbon footprint, have, too.<\/p>\n

During his six terms in Congress, Walz was a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, where he was instrumental in ensuring that soil conservation measures made it into the 2018 farm bill. At the time, the farm bill\u2014the massive piece of legislation that guides the country\u2019s nutrition and farm policy\u2014failed to acknowledge agriculture\u2019s role in contributing to climate change, and barely hinted at its potential role in slowing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany bills he\u2019s co-sponsored or led are about creating a future for rural communities where we can keep more farmers on the land, where we can allow farmers who are stewarding the land to succeed and make money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Walz, who spent his early years working on his family\u2019s farm in rural Nebraska, found a political work-around of sorts. That year he introduced the Strengthening Our Investment in Land (SOIL) Stewardship Act, which boosted existing farm conservation programs and incentivized farms to adopt certain practices that improve soil health, ultimately making soils better able to sequester carbon.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven as short a time ago as 2018, the word \u2018climate\u2019 does not appear in the farm bill,\u201d said Ferd Hoefner, who was policy director at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition at the time. \u201cHe made soil health, through the SOIL Act, the acceptable thing one could talk about when one was trying to talk about climate mitigation through agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoefner noted that the last time the term climate change appeared in a farm bill was in 1990, an indication of just how polarized and partisan the issue has become in farm policy debates since then. After that, it \u201cwas verboten to even mention the word,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The provisions of the SOIL Stewardship Act were ultimately included in that year\u2019s farm bill. Farm policy observers also point to one of Walz\u2019s biggest farm-related accomplishments, which was introducing bills in 2014 and 2018 that help small-scale, veteran and beginning farmers access credit and funds for land, equipment and crop insurance. Provisions of these bills made it into the final versions of those years\u2019 farm bills.<\/p>\n

The Land Stewardship Project, based in Minnesota, has long pushed against the trend of increasing consolidation in agriculture, which has seen the rise of ever-larger farms, mostly run by large corporate entities. This week the council applauded Walz\u2019s record of working against this ongoing shift.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen through his time in Congress and his time in the governor\u2019s office is that issues around the future of agriculture and rural communities aren\u2019t partisan\u2014they cut across political lines,\u201d said Sean Carroll, policy director at Land Stewardship Action, the organization\u2019s political arm. \u201cMany bills he\u2019s co-sponsored or led are about creating a future for rural communities where we can keep more farmers on the land, where we can allow farmers who are stewarding the land to succeed and make money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consolidation, Carroll noted, has exacerbated a system of farming that has become a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Large livestock facilities generate more liquid manure, which emits methane, a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas. The crops grown to feed those livestock, mostly corn and soybeans, are especially fertilizer intensive. Agricultural land use, including fertilizer use, is the largest source <\/a>of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas even more potent than methane. (While carbon dioxide is the most abundant greenhouse gas, methane is 80 times more powerful at trapping heat in the atmosphere, and nitrous oxide is 265 times more powerful.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe consolidation is what\u2019s causing the climate problems from agriculture,\u201d Carroll said.<\/p>\n

Walz has had to balance the economic interests of his farm-heavy state with the climate and environmental issues caused by the agriculture industry, which generates about $26 billion<\/a> for the state annually. Much of that money comes from emissions-intensive forms of agriculture, including concentrated animal feeding operations that, in Minnesota, primarily raise hogs, or row crop farms that grow corn for ethanol. Minnesota is home to 19 ethanol<\/a> refineries.<\/p>\n

\u201cGov. Walz is the perfect choice to serve as Vice President Harris\u2019 running mate,\u201d said Geoff Cooper, CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association. \u201cHe brings Midwestern pragmatism and sensibilities to the ticket and would ensure rural America\u2019s \u2018flyover country\u2019 has a strong voice in a potential Harris administration. Dating back to his days in Congress, Gov. Walz has always been a passionate and effective advocate for renewable fuels and agriculture. He has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the ethanol industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ethanol is facing increased criticism from environmental groups that challenge the purported climate benefits<\/a> of corn-based fuel. Some research says ethanol\u2019s carbon footprint is greater than that<\/a> of gasoline.<\/p>\n

But in corn-producing states like Minnesota, questioning ethanol spells political death, and Walz has had to tread a bipartisan path. In 2020, Walz, along with three Midwestern Republican governors, appealed to the Trump<\/a> administration to reject the oil industry\u2019s attempts to exempt small refineries from being required to blend biofuels into their mixes. (One of those Republicans, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, said Walz was \u201cno leader\u201d and called him a \u201cradical\u201d on social media Tuesday.)<\/p>\n

\u201cOn biofuels he\u2019s indistinguishable from all the other Republicans and Democrats in Midwestern states,\u201d Hoefner said, \u201cwhich is bowing at the altar of almighty corn.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in\u00a0Inside Climate News<\/a>, and is reprinted with permission. It has been updated to correct the name of the Land Stewardship Project.<\/em><\/p>\n

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All of it coalesces into an image of a guy with rural roots and deep ties to agriculture. Since Harris\u2019 announcement, climate advocates have applauded her pick, pointing to Walz\u2019s solid climate bona fides. Farm groups across the political spectrum, including those that work to shrink agriculture\u2019s carbon footprint, have, too. 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Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and National Geographic's The Plate, among others.","url":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/author\/ggustin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57273"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57352,"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57273\/revisions\/57352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57273"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}