NSAC Archives for the '2012 Farm Bill' Category
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Senate Markup – Organic Agriculture
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Note to Readers — This is the seventh in a series of posts on the 2012 Farm Bill reported out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26. Overall, the bill that was reported out of Committee last Thursday supports key pieces of the suite of unique programs that serve the organic sector. Most of Read the Rest…
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Senate Markup – Energy Title
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Note to Readers — This is the sixth in a series of posts on the 2012 Farm Bill reported out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26. Major action on the Farm Bill’s Energy Title was mostly about money as the Senate Agriculture Committee marked up the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act – Read the Rest…
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Senate Markup – Funding Levels
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Note to Readers: This is the fifth in a series of posts on the 2012 Farm Bill reported out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26. How does the version of the 2012 Farm Bill passed out of the Senate Agriculture Committee stack up against the farm bill budget recommendations made by the National Read the Rest…
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Senate Markup – Conservation Title
Monday, April 30th, 2012
Note to Readers — This is the fourth in a series of posts on the 2012 Farm Bill reported out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26. With respect to conservation issues, previous posts have covered the Conservation Stewardship Program and sodsaver/highly erodible land and wetland conservation. This post covers other conservation title programs. Read the Rest…
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Senate Markup – Sodsaver and Conservation Compliance
Monday, April 30th, 2012
Note to Readers — This is the third in a series of posts on the 2012 Farm Bill reported out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26. With much of the rhetoric and substance of the new, in-the-making 2012 Farm Bill revolving around the rapidly growing and expensive crop insurance title, major corresponding attention Read the Rest…
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Senate Markup – Conservation Stewardship Program
Monday, April 30th, 2012
Note to Readers — This is the second in a series of posts on the 2012 Farm Bill reported out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26. Step Forward, Two Steps Backward for Conservation Stewardship Program First the good news: the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) remains part of the revised conservation title for the 2012 Read the Rest…
Senate Committee Approves 2013 Agriculture Spending Bill
Friday, April 27th, 2012
On Thursday, April 26, while the Senate Agriculture Committee was busy passing their version of the 2012 Farm Bill, the Senate Appropriations Committee was also meeting to approve the Fiscal Year 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill. The spending bill covers the majority of the functions of USDA as well as the Food and Drug Administration. We Read the Rest…
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Senate Markup – Beginning Farmers
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Note to Readers — This is the first in what will be a series of posts on the 2012 Farm Bill reported out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26. The Senate Agriculture Committee voted the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act — the proposed name for the 2012 Farm Bill — out of Read the Rest…
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: House Holds Hearing on Rural Development Programs
Friday, April 27th, 2012
On Wednesday, the House Agriculture Agriculture Committee held a Rural Development hearing, the first of eight in preparation for the 2012 Farm Bill. Panel witnesses emphasized the importance of continued investment in rural communities and fielded questions concerning consolidation of numerous programs targeting rural development. Both panels touched on the need for investments in water, Read the Rest…
House Hearing on Farm Bill Conservation Programs
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
On Thursday, the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy and Forestry of the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing on conservation programs in the next Farm Bill. Among the witnesses was Carl Homan of Homan Dairy Farm in Centre County Pennsylvania, who testified on behalf of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. Mr. Homan spoke about how the Read the Rest…
