Michael Krasny hosts Craig Cox, SVP for Agriculture and Natural Resources with the Environmental Working Group, and Mary Kay Thatcher, S. Director of Congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation, to discuss the Farm Bill.

Highlight from the end of the interview:

Cox: These are the kind of questions we should be asking. How is the Farm Bill going to address the reality of climate change and what does it means for sustainable agriculture and food production… I am in the dark.

Thatcher: In terms of the 10,000 foot climate change greenhouse gases, I don’t think that’s likely to be addressed in this Farm Bill because it’s really not the jurisdiction of the Ag Committee. It may be coming to the Super Committee somewhere else. I’m not aware of that. I think the Department of Ag however has 4-5 priorities for research. Climate change has been one of those priorities.

(Source: kqed.org)