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Senate Tax Plan Could Undermine Farm Bill Funding
2017-11-09 23:13:43| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2017 Contact: Hannah Packman, 202-554-1600 hpackman@nfudc.org WASHINGTON U.S. Senate leadership today released its plan for comprehensive tax reform. The legislation differs in many ways from its counterpart released by the U.S. House of Representatives a week ago. The plan would comprise a greater number of individual tax brackets, limit […]
Over 200 Groups Urge Congress to Level the Playing Field for Farmers, Workers and Consumers; Diverse Coalition Calls for Farm Bill to Address Competition in the Food System
2017-10-04 17:05:16| National Farmers Union
For Immediate Release Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Washington, DC Today, a broad-based coalition of 210 farm, rural, worker and consumer advocacy organizations released principles for a fairer farm bill that would address the lack of competition in every link in the food chain. The groups point out that growing consolidation in the agribusiness, food […]
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Farm Bill Conservation Coalition Comes to a Consensus
2017-09-27 16:43:23| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 27, 2017 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON As U.S. House and Senate agriculture committee leadership readies a framework for the 2018 Farm Bill, the conservation community has come to a consensus on a fundamental set of provisions to strengthen the conservation title of the bill. National Farmers Union (NFU) […]
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Farm bill request
2017-06-16 18:42:00| National Hog Farmer
A potential foot-and-mouth disease outbreak would cost the beef, corn, pork and soybean industries alone an estimated $200 billion over 10 years. “The possibility of foot-and-mouth outbreak in the U.S. is the eight-foot gorilla in the room,” says David Henning, National Pork Producers Council vice president. The United States is unprepared for an FMD outbreak. Livestock organizations are taking the lead to be better prepared. The NPPC wants the 2018 farm bill to direct the USDA to: Contract with an offshore, vendor-maintained vaccine bank that would have available FMD antigen concentrate to protect against all 23 of the most common FMD types currently circulating in the world. Maintain a vendor-managed inventory of 10 million doses of vaccine, which is the estimated need for the first two weeks of an outbreak. Contract with an international manufacturer or manufacturers for the surge capacity to produce at least 40 million doses.
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USDA: Farm bill program deadline looms
2015-09-14 17:15:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. The USDA is reminding farmers and ranchers of the Sept. 30 deadline to enroll in the farm bill programs Agriculture Risk Coverage, Price Loss Coverage and the Margin Protection Program for Dairy. read more
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