USDA Ends Funding for Solar, Wind Projects on Farmland

The decision follows the Interior Department’s scaling back solar and wind projects, citing low energy efficiency.

Wind turbines in Beulah, N.D., on Dec. 22, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has stopped all of its programs that fund solar or wind power projects on productive farmland, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said in an Aug. 18 X post.

“Millions of acres of prime farmland is left unusable so Green New Deal subsidized solar panels can be built. This destruction of our farms and prime soil is taking away the futures of the next generation of farmers and the future of our country,” she said.