About Agriculture in the United States
Agriculture in the United States : Agriculture is a major part of the United States economy and culture. The US is a net exporter of food. As of the 2017 census of agriculture, there were 2.04 million farms, covering an area of 900 million acres (1,400,000 sq mi).
More than 2 million full-time workers were employed in production agriculture in the US in 2019 and approximately 1.4 to 2.1 million hired crop workers are employed annually on crop farms in the US.
'This thing is nuts': inside Project 2025's agriculture plan that 'guts rural communities, rural towns'
Project 2025, the far-right blueprint for a second Trump term, includes plans to remake America’s agriculture and nutrition policy at every turn. The plan explicitly calls to ignore climate risks, viewing climate policy as unrelated to agriculture. It would deregulate the USDA, loosening oversight over what goes into what we eat and drink– even baby formula. It would even kick hundreds of thousands off of food benefits, including many women and children, through work requirements, income restrictions, and defunding WIC.
Project 2025 is awful for Midwest farmers and biofuels. Trump should disown it.
To put it bluntly, farmers and renewable fuel industry workers who take the time to read the Project 2025 recommendations on agriculture and energy are likely to be terrified — just as we were.
For starters, Project 2025 encourages the full repeal of the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs, which serve as crucially important safety nets to protect farmers against sudden and unforeseen commodity price crashes and revenue losses.
It gets worse. If the Heritage Foundation had its way, the next President would demand that Congress significantly cut federally supported crop insurance, eliminate the Conservation Reserve Program, phase out certain H-2 work visas, and repeal agricultural export promotion programs like USDA’s Market Access Program.
Project 2025's Plan To Gut Checks and Balances Harms Rural America
Project 2025 is a plan to gut America’s system of checks and balances in order to enact an extreme, far-right agenda that would hurt all Americans. The plan proposes taking power away from everyday people to give politicians, judges, and corporations more control over Americans’ lives.
- Putting farmers at increased risk of financial harm and stunting their ability to grow
Eliminating child care options
Defunding public schools while leaving rural students with few alternative options
Undermining recovery efforts from natural disasters in rural areas, which are more susceptible to extreme weather events
Gutting rural connectivity