{"id":26854,"date":"2025-03-20T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T19:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=26854"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T19:35:46","slug":"sen-ossoff-pushing-to-restore-funding-for-georgia-peanut-program","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-pushing-to-restore-funding-for-georgia-peanut-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Pushing to Restore Funding for Georgia Peanut Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. \u2014 <\/strong>As President Trump freezes a Georgia peanut program, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pushing back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the Trump Administration\u2019s cuts<\/a> to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Sen. Ossoff urged the Trump Administration to swiftly restore funding at the University of Georgia\u2019s (UGA) Feed the Future Innovation Lab (FTFIL) to help Georgia\u2019s peanut farmers strengthen yields and fight crop disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI write to urge you to expeditiously reinstate funding for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut at the University of Georgia, which supports agricultural research at one of the United States\u2019 leading land-grant universities,\u201d Sen. Ossoff wrote toMarco Rubio, Acting Administrator of USAID and Nadeem Shah, Deputy Director of Office of Acquisition and Assistance at USAID.<\/strong> \u201cSince 2018, the University of Georgia has hosted the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut. Researchers at this Lab have studied the impacts of different temperatures and rainfall patterns on peanut growth, developed new disease-resistant peanut varieties, and created a risk index tool to help U.S. farmers increase yield potential and improve peanut quality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, USAID announced<\/a> an additional $15 million investment in UGA\u2019s FTFIL. Last month, UGA received notice that the Trump Administration was terminating the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI request a written response within one week with an update on funding for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut at the University of Georgia,\u201d Sen. Ossoff continued.<\/strong> \u201cI also request detailed reasoning for the State Department\u2019s decision to terminate funding for agricultural research that helps American farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to support Georgia\u2019s peanut farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock urged<\/a> the Trump Administration to swiftly distribute Federal disaster assistance for Georgia farmers that Congress secured after Hurricane Helene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December, Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock successfully fought to pass<\/a> a bipartisan disaster relief package that included $21 billion in agricultural disaster funding and $10 billion in economic assistance to help Georgia farmers recovering from the disastrous impacts of Hurricane Helene and farmers nationwide impacted by natural disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Sen. Ossoff delivered resources<\/a> to help establish a precision agriculture laboratory at the University of Georgia\u2019s Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture in Tifton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read Sen. Ossoff\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 As President Trump freezes a Georgia peanut program, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pushing back. Following the Trump Administration\u2019s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Sen. Ossoff urged the Trump Administration to swiftly restore funding at the University of Georgia\u2019s (UGA) Feed the Future Innovation Lab (FTFIL) to help Georgia\u2019s peanut farmers […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26854","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26856,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26854\/revisions\/26856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}