{"id":252787,"date":"2026-05-22T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/usda-would-get-more-ai-grants-research-farmer-education-under-new-senate-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:15:19","slug":"usda-would-get-more-ai-grants-research-farmer-education-under-new-senate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/usda-would-get-more-ai-grants-research-farmer-education-under-new-senate-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA would get more AI grants, research, farmer education under new Senate bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/usda-ai-farmers-senate-bill\/\">USDA would get more AI grants, research, farmer education under new Senate bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/usda-ai-farmers-senate-bill\/\">https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/usda-ai-farmers-senate-bill\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 14:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"fedscoop.com\">fedscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Agriculture would receive more grant opportunities for artificial intelligence and educating farmers on the technology under a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., said current barriers to AI access can cause American producers to fall behind and be less competitive in the global market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrecision technologies have the potential to enhance innovation and productivity in farming and ranching, but outdated USDA programs are holding this potential back from reaching our rural communities,\u201d Budd, the bill\u2019s lead sponsor, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would make AI research eligible for the USDA\u2019s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative grant and a priority for the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority. It would also include responsible AI use education for farmers through the USDA\u2019s Cooperative Extension System, in addition to an expansion of food and agricultural science fellowships and grants for AI.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cAI in Ag\u201d advisor would also be nominated to tailor existing programs and grants for AI adoption, and work with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish AI standards.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Jim Banks, R-Ind., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmerging technologies, like Artificial Intelligence, offer an opportunity to advance innovation across all industries, but not without access to proper resources and training,\u201d Blunt Rochester said in the statement. \u201cThe FARM AI Act will increase investments in the agricultural industry\u2019s use of AI and ensure rural communities are empowered to successfully harness its promise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Life Sciences Organization also support the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bill addresses two critical gaps facing farmers: a lack of capital to adopt AI tools and a shortage of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/usda-ai-farmers-senate-bill\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USDA would get more AI grants, research, farmer education under new Senate bill https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/usda-ai-farmers-senate-bill\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2274899174.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252789,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252787\/revisions\/252789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}