Items Tagged with 'Farm Bill'

In this opinion piece, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn "GT" Thompson explains how he plans to prescribe a cost-neutral process to make changes in the Thrifty Food Plan in a new farm bill that will be developed by his committee before Memorial Day.

In this joint opinion piece, Lesley Jantarasami, managing director of the Energy Program at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and Maya Solomon, senior director of policy and advocacy at the American Forest Foundation, advocate for the Rural Forest Markets Act, and its benefits of creating a voluntary carbon market for family forest landowners.

In this opinion piece, Lori Stevermer, the president of the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and a Minnesota pork producer, highlights recent USDA data on the pricing impact of California Proposition 12 on consumers and why Congress needs to act and include a legislative solution in the farm bill.  

In this opinion piece, Congressman Max Miller, highlights the importance of the U.S. agriculture industry to our economy and the strength of the food supply while emphasizing the need to pass an updated Farm Bill to address the challenges faced by the agriculture industry and consumers.

In this opinion piece, Tony P. Hall, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, and Kip E. Tom, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture highlight the importance of passing the American Farmers Feed the World Act. 

In this opinion piece, Senator Tina Smith, D-Minn., advocates for more closely aligning base acres with what’s actually being grown on the land when a new farm bill is written.

In this opinion piece, Jared Planz highlights reasons Congress should fully fund Farm Bill conservation programs, focusing on the soil-health benefits that help farmers keep their land in farming from one generation to the next. 

In this opinion piece, former Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Heidi Heitkamp, speak on the urgency for Congress to get to work on the Farm Bill.

In this opinion piece, Rep. David Scott discusses the need for GOP leaders to find additional farm bill funding.