This op-ed was originally distributed in July through the Nebraska Press Associatio. The authors are Ron Roeber, Roger Wehrbein, and Tom Hoegemeyer. Not long ago the Secretary of Agriculture announced a bold initiative that would cut the environmental footprint of US agriculture in half by the year 2050. The date was February 20, 2020. The cabinet official was the Trump administration’s Sonny Perdue. Governor Pete Ricketts had little if anything to say about the ambitious “Ne