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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, January 10, 2025
A group of more than 900 organizations, companies, institutions and individuals supported President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal for USDA’s entire Research, Education and Economics mission area in their letter to House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture.
The Supreme Court made a unanimous decision on behalf of property owners in Sackett v. EPA today, limiting the government’s power to enforce the Clean Water Act (CWA) and allowing landowners to challenge EPA compliance orders in court.
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.
