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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) released a 2012 Farm Bill policy platform – Farming for the Future: A Sustainable Agriculture Agenda for the 2012 Food & Farm Bill – which it said, if adopted, would expand opportunities for family farmers to produce “good†food, sustain the env
Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican or conservative or liberal, whether you represent urban, suburban, rich, poor, or rural areas, or whether you’ve ever even been on a farm, the 2012 farm bill requires your attention.
Washington will focus on budget issues this week as Rep. Paul Ryan announces his “Blueprint for American Renewal†budget during a speech to the American Enterprise Institute Tuesday
Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee chairmen asked House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, today to back away from plans to further reduce FY 2013 spending levels from last year’s Budget Control Act (BCA) agreement.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is leading an effort to pass a bipartisan proposal for a two-year extension of the wind energy production tax credit scheduled to expire at the end of the year.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture needs to balance several Farm Bill proposals and revenue protection plans before it begins marking up a Farm Bill to be optimistically passed this year.
American Farm Bureau (AFBF) President Bob Stallman said a deep loss revenue protection plan is still the best long term Farm Bill policy, but that AFBF would be willing to discuss alternative shallow loss programs if it means getting a Farm Bill done this year.
Early indications for 2012 U.S. red meat exports show pork, beef and lamb exports keeping up with last year’s record-setting levels, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
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