USDA cancels $35M climate grant to Freeport demonstration farm

by Long Islander

Apr 22

The termination letter said Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment failed to pay at least 65% of its climate-smart agriculture grant directly to farmers.

April 21, 2025

Penelope Overton

Portland Press Herald

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After nearly three months of frozen payments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has canceled a five-year, $35 million climate-smart agriculture grant to a Freeport demonstration farm.

Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment was informed last week that it had lost its grant because its overhead costs exceeded new guidelines set by the Trump administration, Wolfe’s Neck communications director Harry Kimball said.

The USDA announced it was canceling most of the 135 projects funded by the $3.1 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program last week, calling it a Biden administration-era slush fund “built to advance the green new scam at the benefit of (nongovernmental organizations).”

In its notice to Wolfe’s Neck, the USDA cited the project’s failure to pay at least 65% of its funding directly to farmers. But Kimball said the project’s indirect spending still benefited farmers....................

...........................The center had pledged to use 40% of funds to help historically underserved farmers: farmers of color, veterans, low-income farmers or those who are new to farming. It would have supplied materials and services in English, Spanish, Chinese, Hmong, Vietnamese and Punjabi........................“We knitted a beautiful sweater and now we are being forced to pull out a number of strands of yarn,” Executive Director Dave Herring is quoted as saying. 

Read the entire article at https://www.pressherald.com/2025/04/21/usda-cancels-35m-climate-grant-to-freeport-demonstration-farm/

 

  • Willem Post

    This is off-the-charts beautiful.

    Four deranged, woke democrat house reps, who do not give a damn about their own constituents, went to Al Salvador to visit their favorite criminal they want to bring home and set free, using their own money for first class travel, hotels and meals.

    However, the reps were not an official delegation paid for by the federal government, which meant they were not allowed to see their favorite criminal, aka Maryland Man.

    So now they have to fly back to the US having nothing to show for their dog-and-pony show.

    Chairman Comer had said, you can go to see your favorite Maryland Man, but not using federal/taxpayer money!

    Apr 22