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Planned Food Shortages Many farmers who apply for federal funding to assist in implementing voluntary conservation practices on their land – such as improving soil health or developing habitats for bees and other pollinators — are being rejected by their local USDA offices.
According to a new report by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP),“Payments for Pollution: How Federal Conservation Programs Can Better Benefit Farmers and the Environment,”that’s because in many cases limited budgets are being “misdirected to large, polluting operations while thousands of farmers are being turned away from contracts that could help them pay for conservation improvements and help their bottom lines.”
Through its research in 2021, IATP found that only 42% of CSP applicants and 31% of EQIP applicants were awarded contracts between 2010 and 2020. “There’s just not enough money to go around,”
“That’s partially because conservation programs have been defunded through the farm bill.
