Posted on 12/13/2022 7:45:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new round of climate-smart commodities projects, funding smaller initiatives that target niche markets and often have a greater role for minority farmers and institutions.
Some 71 projects will share up to $325 million, with most of them receiving close to $5 million, the limit for the latest round. The first round of awards, announced in September, totaled 70 projects that will share up to $2.8 billion.
A project led by Central State University, a historically Black school in Ohio, will help minority vegetable and beef cattle producers in Ohio and southern Michigan adopt climate-related practices. Small-scale and urban farmers will get funding to pay for a portion of their operating costs.
A Chickasaw Nation project in Oklahoma is aimed at marketing pecans verified as climate-smart. Farmers in the project will receive incentives for reducing chemical applications on pecan trees and converting pastures to multiple species of native grasses.
A project led by the American Lamb Board will measure the soil health and greenhouse gas benefits provided by prescribed grazing at four demonstration sites. Historically underserved producers will get funding and technical assistance as part of the project.
Tuskegee is involved in several projects and is the lead partner in two, one in agroforestry and the other aimed at developing “silvopasture systems and climate-resilient forage systems” for sheep and goats. That project’s goals include creating a mobile processing and marketing system to support sales to farmers’ markets and local restaurants.
Olga Bolden-Tiller, dean of the College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences at Tuskegee, said the animals will be fed high-protein crops such as legumes to help them gain weight more quickly, “which improves productivity and profitability.”
(Excerpt) Read more at agri-pulse.com ...
Oh goody. More tax dollars thrown at a minor issue. If it even is. Adapt or die.
I’m so glad I’m no longer a tax payer - and I live in an area WITHIN the US where the cost of living is a fraction of what it is in most of the metropolitan areas.
I call it Galt’s Knob.
What a staggering waste of money on nonsensical bull squeeze.
Think of the much better and more productive uses for this money if it were still in the hands of its rightful owners instead of stolen by government and just pissed away.
More money laundering to democrat organizations. They get the money, and 50%, or more goes right back to democrat party political organizations and candidates.
It’s how they fund the fraud.
The Dept. Of Agriculture should be promoting global warming so that we have additional growing seasons. (Semi-sarcasm) All of those tax dollars are going to waste.
I want to study the effects of Climate Change on Tahitian snails..................................
You’re not alone:
“57% of U.S. households paid no federal income tax last year“
I got your smaller climate project right here. Pay me.
“Oh goody. More tax dollars thrown at a minor issue. If it even is. Adapt or die.”
Oh, no. You may have missed this part of the article that tells a much bigger story because it tells you what the tax dollars are going for:
“help minority vegetable and beef cattle producers in Ohio and southern Michigan adopt climate-related practices. Small-scale and urban farmers will get funding to pay for a portion of their operating costs.”
Money for votes from a targeted group.
wy69
So why is the govt handing out $$$$ to cattle farms even if they are “minority owned”? What happened to the concerns and histrionics over cattle farts melting the ice caps, or something? Don’t the elitist globalist WEF scumbags want us to save the planet by not raising cattle and eat insects? Well they can eat 💩. 500 trillion flies can’t be wrong.
I want $325 million to study how holding my breath for 15 seconds every hour helps ‘save mother earth’ over the next 5 years
Well, that won’t last. Looks like we really are starving the beast.
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