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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaegt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points The Biden adrministraton has targeted soi rmaragemenr prlrcuces, the aIges sour _f of agricuitural greenhouse gas emissions, as a major part of their pian to cut those emis- sions in half by 2030. However, the administration's oreferred short-run approach-to subsidize the adoption of cover cropping practices-----seems liKely to have little or no impact on carbon emis- 5iOns. Reducing or ending subsidies for crop insurance and other programs tnat encourage increased land use and planting on margina lands vvould be a much wiser place to start on the path toward substantiay reducing agorcuture's carbon footprint. President Joe Biden has stated that US farmers must lead the way in mitigat ing cli rate change and has pledged. to undertake programs that would cut emissions from agriculture by Co percent by 203 . The basis for this approach is linked to the UBS Environental Protection Agency's (EPA) esti- mate that griculture is responchile r 10 percent of total US greenhouse gas (GHG ) emissions. Fig- rc , 1, btaine fIom the iPA's '02 Greenhose Gas inve'cntor Data Explorer, illustrates US egri- cultural . iG emissions by source 'These em is-. sions come from livestock, agricultural soils, and rice pr ductior which has ain especially large G HG footpint. Soil management practices are by 'ar the largest indrividual source of emissions and may offer the greatest opportunities for reducing cmOs-w sions. But in fact, right now agronomists have a limited understanding of the sources, effects, and impacts of agricultural practices that mig t miti- gate carbon emissions. Nevertheless, pollicymakers are ready, even eager, to offer additional subsidies encoutrging farmers to adopt practices that may rmiti ate GHG emissions, even though there is no clar y about those practices' impacts. The president's 2o Build Back Better policy framews orkl therefore included. over $90 billion irteded o help (ie., subsidize) farmers meet the admiisration's 2030 emnissio ns reduction target, The framework includes an array of potential federally fuled pr grarns. Sore involve relatively small investm ets (e.g., the St billion directed toward i894 and 1994 land-grant and other minority- seringi iusttutions to develop research facilities to investigate agriculture's role in climate change). Others involve much larger expenditures, perhaps

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