USDA cancels $35M climate grant to Freeport demonstration farm
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-gra...
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Comment by arthur qwenk on Wednesday
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Harvard has been a left wing bigoted organization for much of its recent history. They only should receive funding, under scrutiny from the US govt, for research that benefits all Americans, such as cancer research,diabetes and other medical research.
They have plenty of endowment money to carry on. Unless they change their antisemitic, anti- asian , DEI related polices, they should also lose their tax exempt status.
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Comment by Long Islander on Tuesday
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Willem,
I just looked up Harvard's endowment at https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy24_harvard_financial_... and in 2024 it was $53.2 Billion. Why do they receive any money at all from taxpayers?
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Harvard is getting about $2 billion per year, no-strings-attached, from the federal government.
Harvard has the right to exercise free speech, to teach, to do research, or practice DEI, or gay rights, or whatever comes to mind.
Harvard is suing Trump, because he is freezing the blank check.
Harvard has no right to receive free federal money.
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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!
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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