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Daybreak Sept. 24: Direct payments for cover crops feature in $28B plan

09/24/21 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Ben Nuelle, Steve Davies, and Bill Tomson
KEYWORDS Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Build Back Better Build Back Better Budget Environmental Quality Incentives Program EQIP Food and Agriculture Organization House Democrats House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal Robert Bonnie Sen. John Boozman Senate Ag Committee Senate Ag Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer United Nations Food System Summit USAID Administrator Samantha Power
We now have the details on the $28 billion plan that Democrats have developed for funding climate-smart agriculture. According to a summary circulating on Capitol Hill and obtained by Agri-Pulse, the plan features a new $5 billion program to provide direct payments to farmers who plant cover crops.
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