Pro-Trump farmer in Missouri faces losing his farm after federal freeze, says he “didn’t have time to research” before voting - WTF Detective
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A Missouri cattle farmer is facing financial ruin after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) froze funding for key conservation programs, despite previously signed contracts with the government. The freeze, part of the Trump administration's sweeping federal review of spending programs, has left Skylar Holden, a first-generation farmer, scrambling to save his land. Holden, who voted for President Donald Trump, had signed a $240,000…

A Missouri cattle farmer is facing financial ruin after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) froze funding for key conservation programs, despite previously signed contracts with the government.

The freeze, part of the Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of spending programs, has left Skylar Holden, a first-generation farmer, scrambling to save his land.

Holden, who voted for President Donald Trump, had signed a $240,000 contract with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to improve water lines, fencing, and wells on his farm.

  • YeahToast@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    6 hours ago

    Holden defended his thought process in trusting the quiz and voting for Trump, explaining that his 17-hour workdays leave little time for political research.

    If he’s working 17 hours a day 7 days a week, he’s farming wrong.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      8·
      5 hours ago

      Even if he is, it is not mind occupying work out there. I grew up in farm country. He had a radio on, how much you want to bet it was tuned to the local conservative talk radio constantly?