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President Joe Biden is looking to Congress to pass portions of his Build Back Better bill, specifically naming the legislation’s climate measures. Those include about $80 billion in agriculture provisions.

We still don’t have details of the provisions that Democrats have agreed on as part of their Build Back Better spending plan. But Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow says there is still significant for funding child nutrition and conservation provisions.

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.