USDA cancels $35M climate grant to Freeport demonstration farm

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 21, 2025

After nearly three months of frozen payments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has canceled a five-year, $35 million climate-smart agriculture grant to a Freeport demonstration farm. Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment was informed last week that it had lost its grant.The USDA announced it was canceling most of the 135 projects funded by the $3.1 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program last week, calling it a Biden administration-era slush fund “built to advance the green new scam at the benefit of (nongovernmental organizations).”