US Farm Agency Ends Program to Support Small Businesses

Friday, July 18, 2025

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday it would cut funding for a national network of centers that have supported thousands of small- and mid-sized farm and food businesses.

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#1 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-07-18 07:11 AM | Reply

Suckers and losers

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-18 09:01 PM | Reply

If a small business can't survive on it's own, why is it the responsibility of tax payers to fund it?

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-18 09:59 PM | Reply

"If a small business can't survive on it's own, why is it the responsibility of tax payers to fund it?"

Maybe because big business gets even bigger handouts?

These 19 Fortune 100 Companies Paid Next to Nothing -- or Nothing at All -- in Taxes in 2021
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#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-18 10:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

From the cited article ...

... Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said in a statement that the agency was terminating the Regional Food Business Centers program because they were not financially sustainable. ...

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-18 10:12 PM | Reply

@#5 ... they were they were not financially sustainable. .... ...

What, exactly, does "were not financially sustainable" mean in this context?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-18 10:14 PM | Reply

If a small business can't survive on it's own, why is it the responsibility of tax payers to fund it?

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Says the guy who worked in one of the most subsidized industries in the country...

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-19 01:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Says the guy who worked in one of the most subsidized industries in the country...

#7 | Posted by jpw at

You don't understand. That was Him.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-19 09:21 AM | Reply

Says the guy who worked in one of the most subsidized industries in the country...

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-19 01:28 AM | Reply | Flag

Maybe because the entire military fleet (excluding some nuke subs and ships) and the entire economy runs on petroleum. It's called national security and if the government wants to control production, then they need to put skin in the game.

You're a fkkin moron who's comparing a farmer's market to the entire O&G industry.

#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-19 01:47 PM | Reply