White Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Sues USDA For Holding Out On Axing Biden-Era DEI Programs

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Monday, claiming the agency is continuing discriminatory practices established under the Biden administration.

WILL filed suit against USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins in federal court on behalf of Adam Faust, a dairy farmer from Chilton, Wisconsin. The lawsuit alleges that the USDA has preserved three programs that violate the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause by disproportionately benefiting minority and female farmers.

“Farmers, like all other Americans, deserve to be assessed as individuals, not as statistics or as means toward achieving some quota, preference, or balancing based on race or sex,” the lawsuit reads.

The current lawsuit highlights three USDA programs in particular that continue to apply race and sex-based preferences: the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) Program, the Loan Guarantee Program and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).

The DMC provides financial assistance to dairy producers when the margin between milk and feed prices drops below a certain threshold. However, the lawsuit claims that minority and female farmers are exempt from the annual administrative fee that white farmers like Faust are required to pay.

Under the Loan Guarantee Program, Faust is eligible for a 90% loan guarantee, while minority and female farmers may receive a 95% loan guarantee, according to the lawsuit. The