USDA’s climate grants for farms and forests run into Republican buzzsaw

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is spending more than $3 billion to cultivate more American farmers and forest landowners as partners to mitigate climate change — even while some Republicans on Capitol Hill try to stop the program entirely.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/08/12/usdas-climate-grants-for-farms-and-forests-run-into-republican-buzzsaw/?

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US farms are increasingly reliant on contract workers who are acutely exposed to climate extremes

Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didn’t hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. Those teams hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the pumpkin and corn crops he uses for his primarily fall-focused agrotourism outfit.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-conditions-contract-workers-agricultural-census-0ac08d0baa1a855319b93c82c04f9450?