{"id":1864,"date":"2026-04-07T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/op-ed-usda-canceled-300-million-in-contracts-for-first-generation-farmers-what-a-waste\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:00:08","slug":"op-ed-usda-canceled-300-million-in-contracts-for-first-generation-farmers-what-a-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/op-ed-usda-canceled-300-million-in-contracts-for-first-generation-farmers-what-a-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed: USDA Canceled $300 Million in Contracts for First-Generation Farmers. What a\u00a0Waste."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funding came through the Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program (ILCM), the result of years of advocacy. It was the federal government\u2019s most ambitious effort to address the compounding barriers that young, underserved, and first-generation producers face in starting and sustaining a farm. In March, the USDA ended those projects, terminating the ILCMA [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2026\/04\/07\/op-ed-usda-canceled-300-million-in-contracts-to-support-first-generation-farmers-im-one-of-them\/\">Op-ed: USDA Canceled $300 Million in Contracts for First-Generation Farmers. What a\u00a0Waste.<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/\">Civil Eats<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funding came through the Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program (ILCM), the result&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}