Nearly $20 billion was set aside for conservation in the Inflation Reduction Act. Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member John Boozman wants to fold those dollars into the farm bill. “People could gobble that up and use it for something else so I’d like to put it in the farm bill and create new base.” Boozman said the $20 billion conservation investment in the IRA was put together without input from the stakeholders. “That came out of the White House so I want to combine it,” said Boozman. “I want to be very clear, I don’t want to take those dollars and put those into risk management tools; I’m going to put them in conservation, but let’s discuss how it’s done.”
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