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Senate Listens to Public & Makes Crop Insurance More Accountable to the Environment

June 22, 2012
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
conservation compliance, Conservation Reserve Program, Conservation Stewardship Program, crop insurance, Farm Bill, farm conservation, Land Stewardship Project, Senate, Senator Al Franken, Senator Amy Klobuchar, soil erosion, stewardship, sustainable agriculture, wetlands

The U.S. Senate passed its version of the 2012 Farm Bill this week. While it’s far from perfect, specific amendments related to conservation and accountability that were passed during the floor vote…
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,…