Trump & Co are now defunding a research project from the WSU Breadlab that seeks to create more nutritious and affordable grains. It’s in year 3 of 5.
From the email:
We have been ordered to cease spending on our Soil to Society grant, a 5-year, $10 million project funded through the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's (AFRI) Sustainable Agriculture Systems (SAS) program. We are in year 3 of 5 of this multidisciplinary research effort where crop and soil sciences, food science, and health and medicine disciplines work to create more nutritious, affordable, and accessible whole grain-based foods with our target crops of wheat, barley, buckwheat, quinoa, peas, and lentils. This pause amounts to a $2.5 million dollar loss in funding for the project, including salaries for several Breadlab staff, and operating funds for our wheat, barley, perennial grains, and quinoa breeding projects.
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