It depends on the type of climate issue you're talking about.
Floods, for example, can have long-term affects, because soil moves.
We've done a good job for decades now on the sustainability front. Part of our biggest frustration is that no one is recognizing what we have been doing over the last number of years. They think we have to do all these things now to solve the problems, but they're not taking into account what we've already done.
I had to go plough a field a year ago for an archeological study on a farm I rented. Do you know you know hard it was for me to find a plough? Nobody ploughs anymore; everybody does no-till.
We do no-till because it's good for the soil. It's good for what we do. It's good for economic reasons as well. As long as we can continue to ramp up those measures of best management practices.... We need things like seed technology development in seed genetics in particular to help improve for wet years and for dry years. That's going to help the sustainability efforts as well.
Fires can also have a long-term effect, depending on what comes out of the air and goes into the ground and how that impacts the growth of the crops going forward. That will also impact livestock farmers if they can't grow the right crops or the more nutritious grasses, etc.
A multitude of effects are happening. The more we can invest in the technology that's going to help us go forward, in particular on soil health.... We don't do a thing in order to sequester more carbon. When we do something for a soil, it has multiple co-environmental benefits. There's water retention and movement, nutrient retention and, yes, carbon sequestration.
That's really what we need to focus on from a soil health perspective: How do we drive that forward?