The Agriculture Energy Coalition wants Congress and the Biden administration to increase funding for USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).
Director Lloyd Ritter says the coalition, made up of many organizations in the ag energy and ag climate space, would like to see a financial infusion of more than $2 billion over ten years to the popular REAP program.
“To make it more sort of beneficial to rural communities, and really just be a big climate sort of solutions program in the ag and rural sectors.”
He tells Brownfield without additional REAP dollars, people will continue to be turned away.
