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News Investigations Topics Today's Climate Clean Economy Videos Infographics EBooks HOT TOPICS: Election 2020 Arctic Agriculture Global Security Extreme Weather Exxon Investigation Climate Science HOME Infographic: Why Farmers Are Ideally Positioned to Fight Climate Change Part of the series Harvesting Peril, about agriculture, climate change and the American Farm Bureau's influence. Growing crops, raising livestock and clearing land all produce greenhouse gases, so agriculture gives off lots of the pollution that is warming the planet. Scientists say that without significant changes, farming's global warming footprint will grow rapidly in the next few decades. Farmers, along with the rest of us, would pay the price. But climate-friendly farming could help solve the problem by trapping carbon in the soil, improving its quality while offsetting dangerous emissions. 
Infographic: How agriculture and livestock contribute to climate change The practices farmers use for growing crops can increase or lessen emissions and the soil's ability to store carbon. Chemical fertilizers, in particular, pose a triple threat for the climate. 
Infographic: The triple threat of nitrogen fertilizers Agriculture emissions don't stop in the fields. Much of the country's grain goes to feed livestock, which are a leading source of methane. 
Infographic: Livestock produce large amounts of methane gas But while farms are emissions sources, they're also important climate solutions. Farmers have a vested interest in reducing emissions, too: Rising global temperatures fuel heat waves, droughts and extreme rainfall that can destroy a season's entire crop. Potential for reining in these threats is just below the surface. Soils store two to three times more carbon than the atmosphere, which also creates the rich organic matter that food crops thrive on. 
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| OCT 24, 2018 (Accessed July 2019 ) The text being discussed is available at | https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24092018/infographic-farm-soil-carbon-cycle-climate-change-solution-agriculture and |