The president wooed farmers in his campaign, but now the USDA is yanking funding, citing \u2018DEI\u2019 and wasteful spending<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just an eighth of an acre, but for Lawrencia Rogers, the plot where she grows broccolini, lettuce and beans on land once tilled by poorhouse residents in eastern Iowa is the closest she has come to living her dream.<\/p>\n
Iowa is one of the most agriculturally productive states in the country, but getting into farming is not easy, particularly for people like Rogers who have no family connections to the business. It\u2019s nonetheless been a lifelong passion for the 33-year-old Iowan: at age six, she planted a rosebush that\u2019s still alive today, and managed to grow cantaloupe on a strip of dirt and chain-link fence next to the driveway of her grandmother\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
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