No Funding for Farmland Solar and Small Family Farms Dominate
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says the USDA will no longer fund taxpayer dollars for solar panels on productive farmland OR allow solar panels manufactured by foreign adversaries to be used in USDA projects.
Subsidized solar farms have made it more difficult for farmers to access farmland by making it more expensive and less available.
Rollins says our prime farmland should not be wasted and replaced with Green New Deal-subsidized solar panels.
**Farm Credit System Institutions made more than 150,000 loans to young, beginning, and small U.S. producers in 2024, totaling $33.1 billion, which was more than half of all loans made.
Farm Credit Council president, Christy Seyfert says the future of agriculture depends on the next generation, and we’re proud to deliver on this commitment to supporting young, beginning, and small producers as this report shows.
**The 2022 Census of Agriculture Typology Report shows that family farms make up 95% of all U.S. farms.
The National Ag Statistics Service report focuses on the “family farm,” defined as any farm where the majority of the business is owned by the producer or relatives.
SMALL family farms with income under $350,000 per year make up 85% of all U.S. farms, but just 39% of the total land in farms.
