Nearly $16 million in Conservation Innovation Grants (CIGs) will be awarded to 47 organizations to help develop cutting-edge ideas to accelerate innovation in private lands conservation.
The threatened end of cash subsidies to the nation’s row crop farmers dates back through at least the last two iterations of national agriculture policy legislation.
The new Supplemental Coverage Option, available through the federal crop insurance program and set to begin with the 2015 crop year, is designed to help protect producers from yield and market volatility.
The new five-year Farm Bill eliminates many of the direct payments previously payed to growers and could benefit from USDA clarification, reports a Toledo Blade columnist.
The bill provides $28 billion over the next five years for conservation on private lands while streamlining several old programs and creating new ones like the Regional Conservation Partnership Program.
In his recent articles, Purdue Extension ag economist Roman Keeney explains the ways the farm bill has changed agricultural policy, outlines the new farm revenue protection programs and helps farmers start to evaluate their program decisions.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reports major new initiatives have been established and existing programs have been reformed in the first 90 days of the 2014 Farm Bill.
President Obama on Friday signed into law an agriculture spending bill that will spread benefits to farmers in every region of the country, but not everyone is happy.
TFI applauds Congressional leaders for coming together in a bipartisan fashion to provide American farmers with the certainty and resources they need to plan for upcoming planting seasons.
The current Farm Bill legislation falls short in helping farmers prepare for the fundamental long-term food and agriculture challenges posed by a number of factors, according to AGree’s four co-chairs.
