This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
At a White House roundtable last Monday, president Donald Trump, alongside Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and a handful of other leaders in the government, announced a $12 billion farm aid program intended to offset the economic blowback that US farmers have faced this year as a result of the president’s volatile trade policies.
But there’s a catch: only major commodity farming operations—such as those that grow corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, wheat, and soybeans—will be eligible for more than 92 percent of the money, which is