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Farm bill and crop insurance funding maintained while some additional funds offered for rural broadband and climate-smart ag practices.

The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association is endorsing the Agriculture Resilience Act which was introduced recently in Congress.

Congress should provide $200 billion in new funding over a decade to reach the goal of “negative emission farming,” said 450 conservation, consumer, farm, and environmental groups.

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition has led a letter to congressional leaders seeking a major funding boost for an array of USDA programs over the next decade. USDA also has launched an initiative to quantify the climate benefits of CRP contracts.

Credit Lester Graham / Michigan Radio The Biden administration is reversing Trump administration cuts to the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Payments to farmers to set aside land were reduced by the previous former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. With lower payments, some farmers left the program and plowed under land that was once set aside for conservation. “The payments are intended to offset the losses that a farmer would incur if they take that land out of active production and USDA prioritizes those lands that are most sensitive and most important to conserve,” said ...