NSAC Archives for the 'Risk Management' Category
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…
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Letter Signals Senate Floor Amendment to Cap Insurance Subsidies Per Farm
Friday, May 11th, 2012
On Tuesday, May 8, Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) sent a letter to Senate Agriculture Committee leaders in support of reforming the federal crop insurance program by placing caps on the amount of taxpayer subsidies any one farm could receive annually. The letter represents a first step toward an amendment to the 2012 Read the Rest…
Guest Blog: “Local Foods, Local Profits” Hill Briefings
Friday, May 11th, 2012
We want to thank Justin Tatham from NSAC member, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), for his contribution. Justin is the Senior Washington Representative for the Food & Environment program at UCS, specializing in agriculture, food, and farm bill policy. NSAC Policy Associate Helen Dombalis and Farmer Jack Hedin Earlier this week, the Union of Read the Rest…
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…
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…
Path to the 2012 Farm Bill: Senate Markup – Commodity and Crop Insurance Subsidy Provisions
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Note to Readers: This is the tenth in a series of posts on the 2012 Farm Bill reported out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26. Commodity Title The main storyline of the commodity title emerging from Senate Agriculture Committee markup of the 2012 Farm Bill is the elimination of direct payments and counter-cyclical Read the Rest…
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 – 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…
Guest Blog: Insuring and Financing Healthy Farms
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Editor’s Note: We want to thank Jeffrey O’Hara from NSAC member the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) for his contribution. Dr. O’Hara is an agricultural economist in the Food & Environment Program at UCS; his expertise includes local food systems and community development. Farm policy has historically disregarded whether domestic crop production is aligned with Read the Rest…
Former NRCS Chiefs Support Conservation in Crop Insurance
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
On Friday, April 20, four former Chiefs of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) wrote a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees in support of reattaching highly erodible land and wetland conservation requirements to federal crop insurance subsidies. This letter comes nearly one month after two former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture Read the Rest…
