Administration’s Proposed Renewable Energy Agriculture and Biomass Budget for Fiscal Year 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C., On February 5, 2007 the Administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year FY08.

The Administration’s budget requests $89 billion for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA); this is nearly $4 billion below the Administration’s FY07 funding request. This includes $67 billion of mandatory funding for programs required by law (nutrition, commodity, etc.) and $22 billion for discretionary programs (rural development, research, etc.)