Trump USDA Decimates USDA Support for Farmers

Trump USDA Decimates USDA Support for Farmers

Troy Hadrick, an ag-über-alles conservative who thinks advocacy for fighting climate change is a front for dictatorship, happily accepted a $35,000 grant from President Biden’s USDA Regional Food Business Center program (on top of $2.2 million in socialism to support his plan for a local butchering operation in 2023). Hadrick’s RFBC grant is one of five projects in South Dakota that beat the buzzer that farm-hating dictator Trump sounded last mo…

Small farms, food businesses in Nevada to lose $3M in USDA support

Caliente area farmer Rodney Mehring. (Photo courtesy Abraham Mehring)Nevada will lose $3 million in federal funding after a program that supported local small and mid-sized food and farm businesses was terminated three years ahead of schedule.  The Southwest Regional Food Business Center – which serves California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah – is one of 12 food business centers across the country that will cease most operations in September instead…