The Wash Post ’s Steven Pearlstein lays into the ways in which the ag industry boondoggled cap-and-trade: Farmers demanded that they be allowed to earn some extra cash by reducing the carbon footprint on their farms and selling these offsets to the factories and power plants unlucky enough to be subject to the carbon-cap regime. They want to be paid extra if they change the feedstock to cut down on cow burps and farts. Or if they use the no-till method for planting seeds, which doesn’t rele