The farm vote still counts in key states in the United States, as the government there has found out to its detriment.
The Environmental Protection Agency has abandoned a nascent plan to tax cattle producing methane. The American Farm Bureau Federation says the tax was to be included in a climate change law and would have cost producers about $175 for every dairy cow, $87.50 for a beef cow and $20 for each hog to purchase permits for emissions.
“Farmers and ranchers do not profit $87.50 per cow or $20 per hog. This tax is not reasonable,” the American Farm Bureau Federation wrote last December.