Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has moved to cancel or freeze trillions in federal funding.

That includes billions in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

William Brigham is back now with this report on how the funding freeze is affecting farmers.

They decided that was the best place.

Right.

It gets a lot of sun there.

These brand-new solar panels on Scott Munro's farm are now up and running.

It shows production on a daily basis.

If its sun stays out, we'll have good production today. That energy powers Monroe's shop and his grain dryer, which uses a lot of electricity processing the

1,200 acres of corn, soy, and wheat that he grows here in central Pennsylvania.

In the peak months, we can have bills $3,000 to $5,000 a month, and we thought that this solar project would be the way to maybe help us with that.

To offset the cost of building the solar array, in 2023, Monroe applied for a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant under its Rural Energy for America program.

If the grant program hadn't existed, do you think you would have put this solar array in?

We weren't going to do the

project if we didn't get the grant. So that's where we... I see. He got one for $94,000,

which covers about 40% of the cost. The way the grant is structured, Monroe pays for the whole

project up front, but after 30 days of operation, which he's hit, he's supposed to receive the grant money.

But that is currently frozen.

It's in limbo.

Are we going to end up footing the whole bill, which isn't really what we signed up for, or is it going to come through down the road and we're going to get the grant money?

We just don't know at this point.

And how does that feel?

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