Skepticism greets bill promoting environmentally friendly farms

Haying in East Calais. Photo by Cate Chant/VTDigger
A bill directing subsidies to farmers who take steps to improve their soil quality met with suspicion in the Senate Committee on Agriculture Wednesday, with one Senator complaining that it’s an example of Vermont farmers “taking it on the chin.”
The bill, titled S.903, would reward farmers for “regenerative agriculture,” which is described as farming practices that “reverse climate change by rebuilding organi