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Calls for Crop Insurance Reform and Environmental Protections Get Louder
It’s Only Fair: Protecting the Land in Return for Subsidies
The pending Senate version of the farm bill includes a provision to relink conservation compliance with crop insurance subsidies. Chairman Lucas's competing House version does not.
Farm Bill Expiration Jeopardizes Key Programs
Even if the government miraculously opens for business tomorrow, several critically important USDA conservation and nutrition programs will be shuttered.
Crop Insurance Creates "Destructive Incentives" for Farmers: NRDC Study Confirms Fundamental Reform is Needed
A report released today (Aug. 27) by the Natural Resources Defense Council supplies the latest evidence that the federal crop insurance program desperately needs fundamental reform.
Is fragile land near you disappearing?
With interactive maps from EWG's new report Going Going Gone!, you can find the “hot spots” where wetlands and other fragile lands are being torn up for crops and wildlife habitat is being destroyed.
Top Ten Reasons to Reject a "Farm Only" Farm Bill
The House should overwhelmingly reject the terrible “farm-only” farm bill being considered this morning.
Don’t Waste Conservation Dollars on Concentrated Animal Waste!
Raising animals in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) is bad for public health and the environment.
Real Reform is Hard to Find
The House of Representatives faced a clear choice on Thursday afternoon when it came time to vote on the farm bill – formally known as the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013...
Top Ten Reasons the Farm Bill Failed
No one should be surprised that the full House of Representatives thoroughly rejected the bloated and divisive farm bill (H.R. 1947) produced by the Agriculture Committee. Here's why:
What to Expect when Expecting – A Farm Bill
No one expected the House Agriculture Committee to produce a farm bill that protects taxpayers, supports family farmers, rewards stewards of the land and feeds the hungry.
Congressional Staff Get First-Hand Look at Farm Conservation at Work
On the eve of floor action in the House on the farm bill, a bipartisan gathering of Congressional staff ventured outside the Beltway the other day to visit Terry Ingram's 220-cow organic dairy farm in...
Six Reasons Why Fiscal Conservatives (and Every American) Should Hate the House Farm Bill
The budget-busting farm bill headed to the House floor next week is bad news for taxpayers. Here's why this bill, officially H.R. 1947, shouldn't pass.
Programs to Reduce Ag’s Water Use Must Be Strengthened, Not Cut
Since it was first authorized in the 1996 farm bill, USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program has grown into the single most important federal program that helps farmers and ranchers protect...
Why Environmentalists (and Every American) Should Reject the House Farm Bill
The budget-busting farm bill approved Wednesday night (May 15) by the House Agriculture Committee and its leaders – Reps. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) – is nothing but bad news...
Cut Crop Insurance, Not Conservation and Nutrition
This ought to be simple. While farm income is at record levels, 47 million Americans are struggling with hunger and millions of acres of wetland and prairie are being lost forever.
Many Farmers Seeking Conservation Help Get Turned Away
Reject Farm Bill Bait and Switch
Here's the bottom line: Both farm bills proposed this week (May 13) by the House and Senate Agriculture committees would cut funding for the hungry and the environment to help boost subsidies for the...
Conservation Success Story: The Grotberg Farm
Dick and Linda Grotberg began their transition to sustainable farming largely by accident.
Worth Protecting
Today, on the eve of farm bill consideration by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, EWG is launching an unprecedented campaign to remind Congress that our land, our food, our families, and our farms...
Hail to the Chiefs
Six former chiefs of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service today (May 7) urged the leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to once again require farmers to adopt basic...