The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has implemented a freeze on funding for key conservation programs, impacting farmers reliant on the resources. The freeze is part of a broader review of federal spending initiated by the Trump administration,

One office in the Agriculture Department show how efforts to comply with Trump’s DEI order have halted some grant payments, even as judges have ordered an end to its funding freeze.

A sliver of the money the USDA owes farmers is released after a Trump administration freeze. But much more remains in limbo, despite court ruling.