USDA ends programs for solar, wind projects on farms

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will no longer support solar and wind projects on productive farmland, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on X. President Donald Trump has referred to wind and solar energy as unreliable, expensive and dependent on Chinese supply chains.

“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,” Rollins posted on X.