The Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) is the nation’s largest conservation program by acreage. Yet, as with most USDA conservation programs, little data is publically available on how the program is working. In 2011, we published a series of three blog posts to provide an in-depth assessment of CSP data. This is the first post in […]
Archives for November 2013
Have you joined the food fight?
Dear Supporter, The comments are pouring in from around the country: from farmers worried about losing their ability to farm sustainably – and their livelihoods. From concerned consumers who don’t want to see local strawberries or salsa disappear from the neighborhood farmers’ market. Have you submitted yours yet? There’s a lot to lose if the […]
Senators Call On Farm Bill Conferees to Aid Underserved Producers
Thirteen Senators have delivered a letter to Senate Farm Bill Conferees calling for a final farm bill to include provisions that will help make crop insurance appropriate and accessible for a wider range of producers. In the letter, the Senators stress that: Specialty crop growers, organic producers, diversified operations, and young and beginning farmers, who have […]
Senators Stand Up for Historic Farm Program Reforms
In a letter to Senate Agriculture Committee Leadership, a bipartisan group of eleven Senators voiced their strong support that a final farm bill retain common-sense reforms to commodity program payments. Both the House and Senate versions of the farm bill contain these historic reforms that place a hard cap on the total commodity payments a producer […]
Climate Change Will Decrease Agricultural Productivity
A draft report by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was recently leaked to the public contains findings that climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades. This report will update a 2007 IPCC report that addressed the impacts of climate change on agriculture and found that, […]