{"id":220333,"date":"2026-05-26T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/bill-funding-increase-sought-for-usda-grants-tied-to-artificial-intelligence-state\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:00:12","slug":"bill-funding-increase-sought-for-usda-grants-tied-to-artificial-intelligence-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/bill-funding-increase-sought-for-usda-grants-tied-to-artificial-intelligence-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill: Funding increase sought for USDA grants tied to artificial intelligence | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedigitalcourier.com\/news\/state\/bill-funding-increase-sought-for-usda-grants-tied-to-artificial-intelligence\/article_c78542c1-f7ec-5146-8fa0-1630d5cbc2a2.html\">Bill: Funding increase sought for USDA grants tied to artificial intelligence | State<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedigitalcourier.com\/news\/state\/bill-funding-increase-sought-for-usda-grants-tied-to-artificial-intelligence\/article_c78542c1-f7ec-5146-8fa0-1630d5cbc2a2.html\">https:\/\/www.thedigitalcourier.com\/news\/state\/bill-funding-increase-sought-for-usda-grants-tied-to-artificial-intelligence\/article_c78542c1-f7ec-5146-8fa0-1630d5cbc2a2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 10:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedigitalcourier.com\">www.thedigitalcourier.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The FARM AI Act (Senate Bill 4627) aims to increase funding for AI projects through USDA grants, led by Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C.<\/li>\n<li>The bill seeks to educate farmers on the latest AI technology to enhance American agricultural production.<\/li>\n<li>Co-sponsors include Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Jim Banks, R-Ind.; Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.; Mike Rounds, R-S.D.; and Lisa Blount Rochester, D-Del.<\/li>\n<li>The legislation focuses on developing the agricultural workforce, expanding AI access in farming, and bolstering producers&#8217; competitiveness in the global market.<\/li>\n<li>The bill intends to prioritize AI research and development under the USDA&#8217;s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative and the USDA\u2019s Advanced Research and Development Authority.<\/li>\n<li>NC State University and the North Carolina Life Sciences Organization support the FARM AI Act, highlighting its potential to accelerate innovation and workforce development in the agricultural sector.<\/li>\n<li>Advocacy for a &#8216;regulatory sandbox&#8217; in agriculture is also mentioned as a potential regulatory solution to help farmers adopt new technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill: Funding increase sought for USDA grants tied to artificial intelligence | State https:\/\/www.thedigitalcourier.com\/news\/state\/bill-funding-increase-sought-for-usda-grants-tied-to-artificial-intelligence\/article_c78542c1-f7ec-5146-8fa0-1630d5cbc2a2.html Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/thedigitalcourier.com\/content\/tncms\/custom\/image\/d5c5849c-f9cb-11ef-a09f-13ffcb644ca4.png?crop=80%2C80%2C145%2C0&resize=200%2C200&order=crop%2Cresize","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-220333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220338,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220333\/revisions\/220338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}