Climate Smart Commodities

In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Biden declared before Congress.    “The state of the union is strong...”   “...and we're here today to ensure that it continues to strengthen agriculture,” added Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack when he spoke this week to an audience at North Carolina A&T University.  The Secretary was talking about a number of i...

On Wednesday, the University of Idaho’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences announced a big grant to help farmers combat climate change.  The award from USDA could total $55 million, and is the largest award in the university’s history, and nearly twice as large as any priori U of I grant.  In addition to supportin...

The USDA plans to announce projects receiving funding via the partnership for climate smart commodities program later this month.  Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said climate smart commodities will help revive rural communities in a variety of ways.   “...

The USDA said the second funding pool through the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities opportunity received over 600 applications from more than 400 groups.  While USDA is calculating the final numbers, the overall interest in the opportunity already exceeds more than $18 billion. “...

The deadline for the USDA’s second round of funding for Climate-Smart Commodities is Friday, June 10th. This funding pool is for partners proposing projects between $250,000 and $5 million. The proposals should emphasize the enrollment of small and-or underserved producers, and-or monitoring, reporting, and verification activities developed at minority-serving institutions. ...

The basic idea of the Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities Program is to have various groups conduct pilot projects that would help farmers produce more so called "climate smart commodities" and sell them for premium prices, while fighting climate change at the same time ...