Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 1/23/18

First on the list is to limit the money that large-scale operations also known as CAFOs get for the environmental quality incentives program, or EQIP. Presently, one-third of EQIP funding goes to CAFOs, which have been criticized for having poor animal welfare conditions or environmental issues.

Ben Lilliston, IATP's director of rural strategies, said that his group's members started meeting with lawmakers in November to see how this limited federal money could be reallocated to smaller farmers. "There is a high demand for these EQIP dollars.

More people apply for them than actually get them," said Lilliston. "CAFOs are gobbling up these dollars and farmers who are not following that particular model are not able to get access to the money."