Feeling the heat from farmers dumping manure in front of government buildings across the Continent, European Commission President Ursela von der Leyen is pumping the brakes on a pillar of the European Union's Net-Zero climate policy and withdrawing an EU-wide bill that would force farmers to reduce the use of chemical pesticides by 50% by 2030.
Forced Transition to EVs "First, EVs are significantly less reliable and more expensive to purchase, repair, power, and maintain than combustion engine vehicles, making them impractical and ill-suited to working farms. Farm equipment must be durable and capable of operating in all weather conditions," the Buckeye report points out.
"The Biden administration's efforts to force farmers to adopt electric equipment ill-suited to farming and to replace natural gas generators with unreliable renewable energy sources is a recipe for unsustainable farming. Unfortunately, Washington's central planners seem oblivious to that stubborn fact and remain committed to making Europe's mistakes," Buckeye points out.
Tracking Emissions from Farm to Table American farmers also find themselves in the bull's eye of ESG reporting requirements proposed by the Biden White House.
"The rule would mandate costly ESG emissions reporting for a firm's entire supply chain, requiring large publicly traded food processing companies, grocery stores, and restaurant groups to track and report emissions from farm to table," the report explains.
"Large companies looking to reduce their overall emissions would stop purchasing food from farms with high emission rates, once again applying financial costs and pressures to the American farmer." "With its heavy use of artificial fertilizers and fossil fuels, livestock methane emissions, weed and bug sprays, and genetically modified crops, agriculture has been targeted by ESG fiduciaries," Lewis and Reddy note.
Now farmer Brown is being targeted by the Biden SEC. The EU calls one of its Net-Zero agriculture programs "Farm to Fork." But Europe's farmers are in open revolt, and the powers that be in Brussels have taken notice.
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