Tag: farm bill
WASHINGTON Sen. Pat Roberts likes to quote a piece of advice from his mentor, the late U.S. Rep. Keith Sebelius of Kansas: Smother your enemies with the milk of human kindness and pray it…
WASHINGTON (AP) The end of 2018 seemed to signal good things to come for Americas farmers. Fresh off the passage of the farm bill, which reauthorized agriculture, conservation and safety net programs, the USDA…
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration is setting out to do what this years farm bill didnt: tighten work requirements for millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on…
Hemp a close relative of marijuana that can be used to make textiles and other products has long been classified as a Schedule I drug by the federal government. Thats set to change.…
Recent agreement on a new farm bill was encouraging at a time of troubling uncertainty for the nations producers. After much legislative wrangling, Congress passed a five-year, $867 billion farm bill with bipartisan support, and…
WASHINGTON (AP) After months of debate and negotiation, Congress voted final approval Wednesday to a massive farm bill that will provide more than $400 billion for agriculture subsidies, conservation programs and food aid. The…
WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for a sweeping agriculture bill that will fund key farm safety net programs for the next five years without making significant changes to the food stamp program.…
WASHINGTON (TNS) An increasingly fierce debate about how to prevent deadly wildfires in California is threatening to endanger crucial crop insurance for farmers in Kansas and Missouri. In the wake of wildfires that killed…
The U.S. Senate has the right idea with its passage last week of a new farm bill. First off, the bill was widely approved, 83-11, by both Republicans and Democrats, as opposed to the House…
