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No-till, cover crop farmer recognizes his impact on climate change
A 5th generation farmer on the Illinois Indiana border recognizes his impact on climate change.
“The farming sector is the largest sector in the world that can control or help mitigate climate control.”
In the last 10 years Rick Clark has implemented no-till and cover crop practices on his farm and is encouraging fellow farmers to try their hand at it.
“If we were to put a green, growing cover crop on thousands of acres, we could start pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere, which is going to reduce the greenhouse gases, reduce climate change and if we can eliminate tillage we are going to stop releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere.”
Clark says transitioning to these practices can be intimidating, but it is a farmer’s responsibility to care for the land.
“If you are not uncomfortable with what you are doing, them you are not trying hard enough to change.”
Brownfield interviewed Clark at a Conservation Cropping Seminar in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
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