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USDA's tall task: Picking winners for $1B climate-smart funding pool

05/18/22 6:28 AM By Steve Davies
KEYWORDS American Farm Bureau Federation climate-smart agriculture Farmers for Soil Health Ferd Hoefner greenhouse gases Growmark Illinois Farm Bureau Natural Resources Conservation Service North Carolina Farm Bureau Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities soil carbon University of Tennessee
USDA has a daunting task as it seeks to pick the winners for one of the biggest ag lotteries ever: the $1 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program, whose first round of funding drew more than 450 proposals seeking $3 billion to $4 billion.
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