alt Hacker News>but many US farmers were USAID farmers 100% of their crop and all of their income was tied to USAID.
Got a source for this? I wanna read on this.
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sedawkgrep • today at 2:13 PM
Googling turns up a multitude. Quick Look says in 2025 $2B worth of us crops went to USAID.
More info here.
https://www.agweb.com/news/policy/politics/usaid-dismantling...
jeffbee • today at 2:17 PM
There are crops that USAID bought that have literally no other market, like milo.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5296876/trying-to-keep-...
It's about USD 2B worth of purchases:
* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2...
* https://theconversation.com/american-farmers-who-once-fed-th...
* https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/02/13/mus...
* https://betterworldcampaign.org/blog/what-us-farmers-get-fro...
And in addition to farmers, a lot of companies/non-profits (for, e.g., logistics) were paid by USAID programs, as well as researchers for things like global health initiatives.