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The House farm bill's disastrous dozen: 12 reasons to vote against GOP proposal
There’s plenty to dislike about the farm bill proposal the House Agriculture Committee will consider this week, including its Department of Agriculture funding cuts and problematic provisions that...
Agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions could surge without climate guardrails
USDA should strategically expand list of climate-smart conservation practices
USDA conservation funding ‘guardrails’ vital for reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
When Congress provided almost $20 billion in Department of Agriculture funding for climate-smart farming practices, it included legislative “guardrails” to ensure the money goes to practices that...
Increasing crop reference prices would hurt young farmers
5 wetland species swamped by toxic ‘forever chemicals’
USDA: Conservation backlogs grow despite new climate-smart funding
USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program needs reform to improve climate benefits
Rice to riches: Sixteen rice farms padding their pockets with taxpayer dollars
Giving IRA conservation funds to farm subsidies threatens millions of cover crop acres
Pocket pickers: Eight cotton farms picking taxpayer pockets
Farm bill for the few?
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently pleaded with Congress to reform farm policies to serve the “many and the most,” not the few, citing data showing family farms lagging behind their bigger...
USDA conservation funding benefits all farmers, not just rice, cotton and peanut farmers
All farmers and ranchers – regardless of what they grow or where they live – can participate in Department of Agriculture conservation programs.
Despite new climate-smart funds, agricultural conservation programs remain oversubscribed
The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, set aside $19.5 billion for agricultural conservation programs that pay farmers to implement conservation practices that reduce agriculture’s greenhouse gas...
Calls to increase crop reference prices would help fewer than 6,000 farmers
Some farm groups and legislators have proposed increasing price guarantees for major crops. But the higher price guarantees would mostly benefit fewer than 6,000 farms in a few states, EWG found.