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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, November 02, 2024
More than 850 FFA chapters in 12 states competed to win $275,000 in prizes by expanding agriculture education to local farmers in the FFA Chapter Challenge.
Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Tim Johnson, D-S.D., introduced legislation today that would place a hard cap on the farm payments an individual farmer could receive in a year and would close loopholes in the farm payment program.
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.
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.
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).
Three major farm lending associations sent a letter urging the leaders of the Senate Committee on Agriculture to maintain funding for the federal crop insurance program, as well as its private-sector delivery system
The latest survey of participants in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmers & Ranchers program shows an even split between government regulations and adequate land as the top challenges they face today.
