Another revenue source to keep farmers farming is getting a boost from the USDA. Under Secretary Robert Bonnie says the new funds will help conserve farmlands and wetlands.
The program continues a strategy by Secretary Tom Vilsack to use the Inflation Reduction Act and other funding sources to keep farmers farming.
Undersecretary Bonnie told USDA Radio that prime farmland is increasingly getting lost to development. He sees ACEP as an antidote.
And then there are wetlands.
Bonnie says those can continue as farms, ranches, and forestlands, as ACEP easements protect wildlife habitat, water quality, and private land ownership.
