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Daybreak May 27: Booming demand for climate-smart funding

05/27/22 10:05 AM By Steve Davies, Bill Tomson, Noah Wicks, and Haley Bickelhaupt

The competition for money from USDA’s effort to test climate-smart commodity projects is turning out to be quite stiff.

Steve Davies
Deputy Managing Editor

Bill Tomson
Senior Trade Editor

Noah Wicks
Associate Editor

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