Republicans plans for Department of Ag

As I drive the country side and see a lot of Trump signs by farmsteads I wonder if farmers are aware of the republican platform for the Department Of Agriculture.   I  studied the section on Dept of Agriculture in The Conservative Promise otherwise called Project 2025.   I understand President Trump has said this is not his platform. Agenda 47, which is, however, says nothing about agriculture, which makes me think either he has no concern for agriculture or his platform for the Department of Agriculture is what I find in the republicans platform.  Never the less I am attaching the highlights/lowlights of the  Republican Platform  with info on where you can pull up project 2025 and I also am providing the page I pulled this information from if you want to check for accuracy.

Website for full document. ‘static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf’

Mostly copied and pasted directly from the 2025document.

1. Pg 293:  Remove U S from any association with U N

2. Pg 296:  Repeal ARC(Agriculture Risk Coverage) and PLC (Price Loss Coverage) programs

3. Pg.297:  Stop paying farmers twice for price and revenue losses in same year

4. Pg 297:  Reduce Crop Insurance premium subsidy (Amount pd by government) from current 60% to 47%.  Would save government $8.1 billion over 10 years  If 40% would save $20.9 Billion. (Cuts in support for farmers)

5. Pg 298:  Move USDA food and Nutrition programs to Dept of Health and Human Services.  Additional recommendations there would make availability more limited.

6. Pg 304:  Champion the elimination of CRP (Conservation Reserve Program).

7. pg 304:  Reform NRCS (NaturalResource and Conservation Service) compliance.  Instead requires each farm to have a general best practices plan to be eligible for USDA programs.

8. Pg 305:  Promote legislation that would allow state inspected meat to be sold in interstate commerce.  Would eliminate need for Federal inspectors.  (Questionable consistency of inspection) (Question on integrity of state inspectors.

9. Pg 306:  Work with Congress to eliminate marketing orders and check off programs. 

10. Pg 309:  Repeal the federal labeling mandate.

11. Pg 309:  Work with lawmakers to repeal the Dietary Guidelines.  School meals are required to be consistent with the guidelines.  (No guidelines, no requirement)

  Carl Austin,

 Fennimore, WI

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