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Monday, April 16, 2012

Media on the Farm Bill


Republicans to slash food stamps
Politico
Food stamps moved front-and-center in the budget wars Monday morning, as House Republicans began rolling out a first wave of $33.2 billion in 10-year savings that will have an immediate impact in the farm bill debate and come November, ...

Small Farmers: Don't Balance Farm Bill Budget on Our Backs
Public News Service
With the national Farm Bill up for renewal by the end of September, Congressional leaders are looking for draft bills from key committees in both houses this month. They have already warned that funding will be cut, and small farmers are afraid that ...

Mercury News editorial: Farm Bill must not subsidize Big Ag at the expense of ...
San Jose Mercury News
So have the record prices and yields made Midwestern farmers and Big Ag happy? No, no, no. When Congress takes up the 2012 Farm Bill on Monday, their wails for subsidies will be as loud as ever. Don't worry. House Republicans will dry their tears.

Sen. Bennet believes Farm Bill could come together this year
Fence Post
Michael Bennet, D-Colo., listens to Morris Ververs as he speaks about the Environmental Quality Incentives Program during the farm bill discussion held on the University of Northern Colorado campus Wednesday afternoon. Bennet, along with other Senate ...

Farm Bill 2012: 'It's a mess, but it's our mess'
Grist Magazine
By Twilight Greenaway Daniel Imhoff began writing about the farm bill before today's so-called Good Food Movement took hold. In 2007, in an effort to make accessible the giant piece of legislation that touches on everything from food stamps to farm ...

Deep Rifts Forming In Farm Bill Debate
Insurance News Net (press release)
The plot thickens in the farm bill saga, although one economist stresses we are far from a final version of the legislation. What is certain is that the current debate reflects the deep ideological difference that has intensified among policy makers in ...

The Worst Farm Bill Ever?
Mother Jones
The farm bill—that vast, byzantine, twice-a-decade plan for federal food, ag, and hunger policy—expires on Sept. 30, just weeks before what promises to be an epically contested presidential election. Under normal circumstances, getting Congress to ...

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