Farmers and ranchers practicing climate-smart agriculture have been on alert since DOGE made it clear it would cut funding to any federal programs mentioning “climate” or “DEI.”

Their fears were realized Monday, when they learned the U.S. Department of Agriculture was eliminating what it called a “Biden Era Climate Slush Fund,” aka Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, in order to “reprioritize existing funding to farmers.”

The program is being canceled because it was “built to advance the green new scam at the benefit of NGOs, not American farmers,” said USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins in a news release. She said she has “heard directly from producers” that “USDA partnerships are overburdened by red tape, have ambiguous goals and require complex reporting that push farmers onto the sidelines.”

With the reformed, overhauled and newly named Advancing Markets for Producers initiative, USDA is “correcting these mistakes and redirecting efforts to set farmers up for an unprecedented era of prosperity,” Rollins said.

Read more from Tracy Ross and Tamara Chuang at ColoradoSun.com.