The Agriculture Department is shuttering a $3 billion Biden-era grant program designed to encourage agricultural production that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, officials announced Monday.
Department officials raised concern that many projects under the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program diverted more funds to third-party partners than to farmers, according to the announcement. USDA will repurpose an unidentified amount of money from the program to launch an initiative called Advancing Markets for Producers, which the department says aligns with current Trump administration priorities.
The canceled program provided nonprofits and commodity crop associations with money to facilitate marketing of agricultural products produced ...