Articles Tagged with ''Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities''

Some of the conservation projects under a $3.1 billion program that has been rebranded from a focus on climate-smart agriculture to expanding markets for farmers are slowly moving toward approval by USDA.

Leaders of projects funded under USDA's canceled-and-rebranded Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program are waiting for more guidance on how to reapply after the Trump administration labeled the program a “slush fund” and apparently terminated most of its grants.

Out with the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities. In with Advancing Markets for Producers. That’s the Trump administration’s new name for PCSC, the Biden administration’s $3 billion climate initiative for agriculture.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins has renamed and changed the rules of a $3.1 billion program testing the ability of a variety of conservation practices to produce climate-smart commodities.

A flagship program to evaluate the impact of “climate-smart” practices and promote regenerative agriculture is starving for money.

Those in the agriculture industry believe that conservation programs will be largely unaffected by the incoming second Trump administration, with the fate of remaining Inflation Reduction Act conservation funding in the hands of Congress.

In this opinion piece, Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., argues that the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress are putting climate ideology ahead of providing farmers the assistance they need.