Letters: No easy answers on farming and climate

Regenerative farming may be an admirable practice on family forest preserve land where farm income is of no importance at all, but it's completely unrealistic for the vast majority of Midwest farmers trying to make a living for their families. Regenerative farming would generate close to zero income. Meanwhile farmers have taxes to pay on the land and families to feed, clothe and house.

Yes, a field of corn sends carbon into the atmosphere, but so does grass.

A much more significant environmental issue is the damage to our groundwater caused by nitrogen gas injected by farmers into the soil as fertilizer. The nitrogen flows underground to the Mississippi River and creates an aquatic dead zone in the Mississippi Delta.

Hello, Jenny Whidden, would you like to tackle that one?

And remember farmers need to produce high yields to make a profit. They like to eat as well. There are no easy answers.

Dan Brown

Des Plaines