A Missouri cattle farmer is facing financial ruin after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) froze funding for key conservation programs, despite previously signed contracts with the government.

The freeze, part of the Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of spending programs, has left Skylar Holden, a first-generation farmer, scrambling to save his land.

Holden, who voted for President Donald Trump, had signed a $240,000 contract with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to improve water lines, fencing, and wells on his farm.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    so even when we point out to them that they’re being taken, they only hear they’re being called rubes…

    Beceause too often that’s literally what we tell them - you’re being taken. Their reaction follows naturally. Ever since I started talking about concrete (class) issues affecting them I’m getting different responses.