Mississippi agriculture, energy officials support USDA’s rollback of solar subsidies on prime farmland

President Trump said Wednesday, “We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar. The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!”

Drive across the South in recent years and you are likely to see fields of solar panels in rural areas that once were reserved for agriculture. Much of that development has been funded, at least in part, by taxpayer subsidies handed down from the federal government as a way to promote “clean” or “green” energy production. That now appears to be changing.

In an effort to protect vital American farmland, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that the federal agency will no longer allow taxpayer dollars to fund solar panels on productive farmland or allow solar panels manufactured by foreign adversaries to be used in USDA projects.

The agency said