The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded billions in Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants for solar projects. Secretary Brook Rollins said the agency will no longer deploy funds to ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced that USDA will no longer fund taxpayer dollars for solar panels on ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will no longer support solar and wind projects on productive farmland, Reuters ...

The department claimed on Tuesday that Tennessee alone has lost over 1.2 million acres of farmland in the past 30 years so the Green New Deal could build subsidized solar panels and the state is ...

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The agency said it’s concerned that farmland is being consumed by wind and solar facilities—which occupy a tiny fraction of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will no longer subsidize large-scale solar projects placed on farmland or use solar panels ...

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It says that since 2012, solar panels on farmland nationwide have increased by 50%. Secretary Rollins said in a statement, ...

On Monday, August 18, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced that the USDA will no longer fund taxpayer dollars for solar panels on productive farmland or allow solar panels ...

The USDA's new policy will impact programs like the Rural Development Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program and the ...

She was the keynote speaker at the Future Farmers of America Ham Breakfast. A fundraiser for FFA, the event at the Farm Bureau Expo Center at the fairgrounds in Lebanon drew a sold-out crowd of about ...