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New Law Lets Black Farmers Seek Claims
Gannett News Service (Detroit Free Press), Doug Abrahms Published June 4, 2008 Robert Harrold missed the 2000 deadline for filing a benefit discrimination claim against the U.S. Department of...
House Farm Bill: A Missed Opportunity for Leadership and Real Reform
Statement of Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, Ranking Member Bob Goodlatte, members of their committee, and their staffs, are to be...
Disaster Aid Fund for Farmers to Get Push
Farm state senators, confronting an increasing struggle to win special disaster assistance for farmers, today will push for creation of a permanent disaster aid trust fund. The Senate Finance...
Addition to climate bill: Cash for no-till farming
Washington, D.C. - Some growers could get payments just to keep farming the way they already are, under changes being made to a House climate bill. Farm groups won provisions in the legislation that...
New Light Shed on Farm Subsidy Payments
Associated Press (+ over 200 outlets), Sam Hananel and Mary Clare Jalonick Published June 11, 2007 From Texas billionaires to Washington lobbyists, it's no secret that wealthy people can get federal...
Farm Bill Conservation Plan Facing Cuts
Argus Leader, Faith Bremner Published September 10, 2008 Senate Democrats are about to renege on an earlier plan to give more money to programs that pay farmers and ranchers to protect wildlife...
Conservation Programs May Get Less Money Than Specified in Farm Bill
Des Moines Register, Philip Brasher Published September 10, 2008 The new farm bill has barely taken effect and the Democrat-controlled Senate is already moving to shrink spending levels for some land...
Watchdog Group, Dean Slam Congress For Proposed Conservation Cuts
Mitchell Daily Republic, Seth Tupper Published September 10, 2008 An environmental watchdog group and a South Dakota outdoorsman slammed Congress Tuesday for proposing legislation that would...
Demand Already Exceeds Funding for Conservation Program That Could Suffer Cuts
Mitchell Daily Republic, Seth Tupper Published September 12, 2008 Hundreds of South Dakotans already are being turned away from a conservation program that could see a pledged funding increase...
Conservation Cuts in Spending Bills Grab Attention of Environmental Groups
Hoosier Ag Today, Gary Truitt Published September 12, 2008 Environmental groups are not happy to see the Senate is already trying to cut spending levels for some of the conservation programs included...
Revamp policy: Stress sustainability
Des Moines Register, Craig Cox Published November 3, 2008 Two recent reports in the Register make it clear that we need to overhaul our biofuels policy.
Environmental group: Target U.S. aid at most polluted waters in Iowa
Des Moines Register , PHILIP BRASHER Published May 29, 2009 Washington, D.C. - Government conservation money in Iowa should be targeted to farms in areas that pollute the Mississippi River basin and...
EWG and Allies Urge Defeat of Biofuels Green House Gas Analysis Exemption
On behalf of our millions of members and activists, we strongly urge you to oppose the Emerson Amendment (#019) and any other attempts to sidestep the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) process...
Senate Cuts Would Shave $5 Million From S.D. EQIP Funds, Group Says
Daily Republic, Seth Tupper Published September 24, 2008 South Dakota stands to lose $5.268 million of federal funding that was pledged by the farm bill toward a popular conservation program...
Time's running out to comment on water contract negotiations
Federal regulators are negotiating an agricultural water contract in the Central Valley, the latest of several dozen deals that could tie up water resources for the next 50 years. Thursday is the...
The California Water Wars: Water Flowing to Farms, Not Fish
After 50 years of legal infighting, a victor has emerged in California's water wars -- agriculture. A decade after environmentalists prevailed in getting more fresh water down the north state's rivers...
The Most Politically Powerful Welfare Recipients in the World
He was immortalized in Grant Wood's 1930 painting "American Gothic": a grim, hardscrabble stoic in overalls, grasping a pitchfork. Guess what? It wasn't really a farmer. It was Wood's dentist posing...
Toxic runoff disposal could imperil water
U.S. agency offers 3 options; critics prefer retiring farmland San Francisco Chronicle, Glen Martin Published November 1, 2005 A pending decision on the disposal of contaminated wastewater produced by...