The Agricultural Cooperative Energy Savings Act of 2025 expands access to certain U.S. Department of Agriculture programs by making smaller agricultural cooperatives eligible for participation. Specifically, the bill lowers the employee threshold to allow agricultural cooperatives with fewer than 2,500 employees to participate in programs previously limited to larger organizations. This change affects smaller farming cooperatives across rural America that pool resources to purchase supplies, equipment, or services collectively. The bill amends existing farm program rules under the 2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act but does not specify new federal funding allocations or implementation timelines in the provided text.
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