JD<p>Trump & Co are now defunding a research project from the WSU Breadlab that seeks to create more nutritious and affordable grains. It’s in year 3 of 5.</p><p>From the email: </p><p>We have been ordered to cease spending on our Soil to Society grant, a 5-year, $10 million project funded through the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's (AFRI) Sustainable Agriculture Systems (SAS) program. We are in year 3 of 5 of this multidisciplinary research effort where crop and soil sciences, food science, and health and medicine disciplines work to create more nutritious, affordable, and accessible whole grain-based foods with our target crops of wheat, barley, buckwheat, quinoa, peas, and lentils. This pause amounts to a $2.5 million dollar loss in funding for the project, including salaries for several Breadlab staff, and operating funds for our wheat, barley, perennial grains, and quinoa breeding projects.</p><p><a href="https://mountains.social/tags/bread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bread</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/grains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grains</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/farming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farming</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/foodways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foodways</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a></p><p><a href="https://foundation.wsu.edu/give/?fund=50d5e366-b61f-4c16-ba7f-93347f4f6f99&cat=idonate_colleges&area=idonate_agricultural_human_and_natural_resource_sciences" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">foundation.wsu.edu/give/?fund=</span><span class="invisible">50d5e366-b61f-4c16-ba7f-93347f4f6f99&cat=idonate_colleges&area=idonate_agricultural_human_and_natural_resource_sciences</span></a></p>