Items Tagged with 'renewable energy'

Some 129,000 acres of solar power production were grazed by more than 113,000 sheep last year, according to a survey commissioned by the American Sheep Industry Association.

President Donald Trump is proposing to slash non-defense spending by nearly 23% in a fiscal 2026 budget that contains $5 billion in cuts to USDA programs, including agricultural research, international food aid, conservation technical assistance to farmers, and rural development. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again initiative is a clear winner in the White House plan. 

We’re getting the first clues as to how farm equipment may be affected by President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Major manufacturer AGCO reported Thursday it’s looking at price increases as an option, and CNH Industrial announced an increase in product prices “in the low single digits.”

The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a rule that will allow conservation leases on its land by giving land protection and restoration equal footing with grazing, energy development and other long-standing uses of the 245 million acres the agency controls.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack made a series of energy infrastructure announcements Wednesday, including the first under an Inflation Reduction Act effort to stand up renewable energy projects in rural America.