Tim LaSalle highlights the ways U.S. farmers can become the leaders in fighting global warming in his "OnPoint" webcast interview. Using basic and proven organic farming practices that build soil will pull carbon dioxide from the air and lock it in soil as carbon that benefits agriculture in many ways. If applied to all U.S. cropland, an effective combination of these practices could result in mitigating (balancing out) 25 percent of the U.S. emissions from fossil fuel combustion, LaSalle said.

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