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Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: House Hearing on Commodity and Crop Insurance Subsidies

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

The House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management held a series of farm bill hearings this week to examine commodity and crop insurance programs in advance of writing their version of what will hopefully become the 2012 Farm Bill.  The full House Agriculture Committee expects to mark up and vote on a Read the Rest…

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Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: House Holds Specialty Crop and Nutrition Hearing

Friday, May 11th, 2012

Tuesday, May 8th, the House Subcommittee on Nutrition and Horticulture held its fourth of eight hearings in preparation for a 2012 Farm Bill.  The hearing consisted of two panels, the first of which discussed specialty crop programs and the second, nutrition assistance.             Rep. Pingree and Russell Libby   Chairwoman Jean Schmidt (R-OH) opened the Read the Rest…

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Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: House Credit Hearing

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

The House Agriculture Subcommittee held a hearing today, Thursday May 10th, to examine federal credit programs as they take up writing the 2012 Farm Bill.  In addition to Chairman Fortenberry (R-NE-1) and Ranking Member Fudge (D-OH-11), Reps. King (R-IA-5), Crawford (R-AR-1), Baca (D-CA-43), and Pingree (D-ME-1) were also in attendance. The panel of witnesses were Read the Rest…

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Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Farm State Editorials Call for Re-linking Conservation Compliance and Crop Insurance Subsidy

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Changes in the 2012 Farm Bill coming out of the Senate Agriculture Committee are set to expand the role of crop insurance as the single largest crop subsidy.  The Congressional Budget Office estimates that federal crop insurance subsidies under current law will total $90 billion over the next decade.  The Senate Committee-passed bill further increases Read the Rest…

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Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Senate Markup – Research, Education, Extension

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Note to Readers — This is the ninth in a series of posts on the 2012 Farm Bill reported out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26. The bill that the Senate Agriculture Committee voted out of committee last week now makes its way to the Senate floor and hopefully will be taken up Read the Rest…

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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…

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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…

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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…

2012 Farm Bill, Agriculture Appropriations, Beginning Farmers, Conservation / Land Stewardship, Fair Competition, Farm Credit, Local Food and Marketing, Organic Agriculture, Research and Extension, Rural Development | No Comments

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…

2012 Farm Bill, Beginning Farmers, Conservation / Land Stewardship, Farm Credit, Grants and Programs, Minority Farmers, Research and Extension, Rural Development | 1 Comment

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…

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