USDA shuts down ‘climate smart’ program with big impacts for conservation work in Chesapeake watershed - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

USDA shuts down ‘climate smart’ program with big impacts for conservation work in Chesapeake watershed - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

The U.S. Department of Agriculture in April announced the termination of its $3 billion “climate smart” program, a grantmaking initiative that was supporting hundreds of millions of dollars in conservation work in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.An April 14 USDA press release called the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, which promoted farm conservation measures with climate benefits, as a “slush fund” with high administrative costs and of…

University of Idaho to Reapply for Ag Program Canceled by USDA

MOSCOW, ID – The University of Idaho intends to reapply for a climate-smart farmer grant canceled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The university was among the recipients of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative, which totaled more than $3 billion for 135 projects across the country, including nearly $59 million for the University of Idaho’s Innovative Agriculture and Marketing Partnership project, the largest grant in …

Farmers for Sustainable Food adjusting to Climate Smart grant cancelation - Brownfield Ag News

Farmers for Sustainable Food is continuing conservation efforts while adjusting to the Trump administration’s rebranding of a grant program. Tim Trotter is the CEO of the Dairy Business Association and Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, which founded Farmers for Sustainable Food.  Trotter tells Brownfield, “We have never been busier than we are today.” He met with […] The post Farmers for Sustainable Food adjusting to Climate Smart grant cancelation…

USDA shuts down ‘climate smart’ program with big impacts for conservation work in Chesapeake watershed

The U.S. Department of Agriculture in April announced the termination of its $3 billion “climate smart” program, a grantmaking initiative that was supporting hundreds of millions of dollars in conservation

USDA ends Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities

SALEM, Ohio — A new era of “unprecedented prosperity” for agriculture is set to begin now that Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, the Biden administration’s slush fund for serving the interests of non-governmental organizations over American farmers, is dead. At least that’s how the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins put it in a press release issued April 14. “The concerns of farmers took a backseat during the Biden Administra…