farm policy

Senate Farm Bill Falls Short on Conservation, Family Farm Ag

April 28, 2012
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
commodity title, crop insurance, farm policy, farm subsidies, row crop agriculture, Senate Agriculture Committee, Senate Farm Bill, soil conservation, USDA

By Adam Warthesen, Land Stewardship Project On April 26, the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee passed its version of the 2012 Farm Bill by a vote of 16 to 5. The bill, which…
Ag Conservation’s Unfair Burden

March 4, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
commodity program, Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP, EQIP, Farm Bill, farm policy, House, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, Senate, sustainable agriculture, working lands conservation

At a time when the budget mantra “we must all share in the pain” is being repeated ad nauseam, it doesn’t take much searching to find some hypocritical exceptions. Take, for example,…