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Valuable Farm Bill Program for Fruits and Vegetables Needs Better Focus
An important farm bill program that provides valuable support for California's growers and consumers of healthy fruits, vegetables and nuts would deliver greater all-around benefits if state officials...
High Crop Prices, Insurance Subsidies Trigger Destruction of Millions of Acres of Wildlife Habitat
Responding to high crop prices and unlimited insurance, growers plowed under more than 23 million acres of grassland, shrub land and wetlands in order to plant commodity crops between 2008 and 2011, a...
Nation’s Drought Highlights Need for Crop Insurance Reform
Environmental Working Group held a media briefing with Dr. Bruce Babock of Iowa State University to discuss the 2012 drought and its implication for the federal crop insurance program.
Crop Insurance Subsidy Reforms Could Save Tens of Billions in 2012 Farm Bill
A new report shows that Congress could save taxpayers at least $42 billion over 10 years, provide farmers with a more fiscally and environmentally responsible safety net and avoid deep cuts to vital...
House Agriculture Leaders Propose to Expand, Not Reform, Farm Subsidies
Environmental Working Group's vice president of government affairs Scott Faber released the following statement on the House agriculture committee leadership's 2012 farm bill proposal.
Taxpayers Paid $6.1 Million in Farm Subsidies to Members of Congress, Families
Environmental Working Group's latest update of the EWG farm subsidy database shows that 23 members of Congress, or their family members, benefitted from $6,140,634 in taxpayer-funded farm subsidy...
Senate Puts Crop Insurance Companies Ahead of Needy Children
Environmental Working Group issued the following statement on the Senate's failure to pass Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's, D-N.Y., amendment:
Begich, McCain Propose Bill To Disclose Crop Insurance Subsidy Recipients
Sens. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, and John McCain, R-Ariz., have introduced an amendment to the Senate farm bill that would make public the names of the individuals who benefit from taxpayer-funded crop...
EWG Praises Crop Insurance Reform Amendments
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., today introduced amendments that would save taxpayers billions of dollars and take...
Government Records Show Crop Insurance Subsidies Are A Boon To Big Farm Interests
Healthy Food, California Get Short Shrift in Farm Bill
EWG statement on Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012
Statement of Craig Cox, Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources of the Environmental Working Group, on the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012: “A farm bill that cuts...
Free Farm Insurance Could Save Taxpayers up to $18.5 Billion
EWG Farm Bill Platform
Foreign Companies Paid Billions to Run U.S. Crop Insurance Program
Twenty insurance companies in Bermuda, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, Canada and the U.S. were paid $7.1 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds from 2007 to 2011 to sell American farmers crop insurance...
Secret CBO Score Shows Secret New Farm Subsidy Program Is a Budget Buster
Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook and Senior Vice President Craig Cox today demanded that the top agriculture committee leaders make public new cost estimates for a five-year farm bill...
Corn and Cotton Clobber Poor Kids in Big Ag’s Secret Farm Bill
New Farm Subsidy Database Reveals Individuals Cashing Big Ag’s Federal Checks
The Environmental Working Group released a new Direct Payment Database today, giving taxpayers a look inside the complex agriculture partnerships and corporations that got the lion's share of $4.7...
Taxpayer Costs Balloon to $8 Billion under Farm Insurance Program
A newly released report on subsidized federal revenue insurance for industrial crop farmers shows that the government has failed to control its costs and big insurance companies and agents continue to...
Senate Votes to Bar Farm Subsidies to Millionaires
The U.S. Senate voted 84-15 last night to deny farm subsidy payments to millionaires.