POSTED IN Current Farm Policy ON Jun 13, 2013
Farm Groups Urge Farm Bill Passage; Voice Opposition to Harmful Crop Insurance Amendments
Members of the agriculture community applauded the House Committee on Agriculture for moving forward on a five-year farm bill and called for timely...
POSTED IN Current Farm Policy ON Jun 12, 2013
Farm Policy Facts Launches ‘Real Farms, Real Families’ Ad Campaign
Farm Policy Facts, a diverse coalition of agricultural organizations dedicating to raising awareness about the important role agriculture plays in...
POSTED IN Current Farm Policy ON Jun 7, 2013
Farmers Belong on a Tractor, Not Under the Bus
Guest opinion by Mark Gerdes, as appears in Ames Tribune One of the beauties of life in our great democracy is that spirited debate about important...
POSTED IN Current Farm Policy ON Jun 4, 2013
America’s Farmers Rolling in The Dough? Now That’s Rich
by Tonya Allen As Farm Bill negotiations continue, opponents of farm policy are again ratcheting up the rhetoric about all of the “rich and famous...
POSTED IN Current Farm Policy ON May 30, 2013
Analysis of NTE and SPS Reports Reveals Uneven Playing Field for U.S. Ag Exporters
A new comprehensive analysis of the recently released National Trade Estimates (NTE) and Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) reports show an...
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Prev NextTotal Farm Safety Net Spending Drops By Two-Thirds as More Farmers Purchase Crop Insurance
Total government spending on farm safety net programs – including all commodity programs and crop insurance –...
As U.S. Farm Bill Negotiations Begin, Brazil Doubling Down On Ag Subsidies
by Tonya Allen As the United States Congress begins negotiating a new five-year Farm Bill and discussing major...
Brazil and the Anti-Farm Lobby – Strange Bedfellows
by Tonya Allen The old saying is that politics makes for strange bedfellows. Case in point: Brazil and U.S. farm...
Setting the Record Straight on Crop Insurance
By Thomas P. Zacharias Admittedly, opponents of farm policy attract more headlines than the men and women who put food...
Billings Gazette Guest Opinion: Keep Crop Insurance Affordable in New Farm Bill
posted on: Apr 30, 2013 | author: FarmPolicyFacts
by Bing Von Bergen There is a lot of buzz in Washington again this year about the prospects of a farm bill. For those of us in agriculture, a...
Food Scarcity: The Cost of Failure
posted on: Apr 25, 2013 | author: FarmPolicyFacts
This is the first in a series of articles that will examine the cost of failure when strong farm policy is not enacted. Food scarcity: it is not...
Brazil’s sugar industry propped up by government largesse
posted on: Apr 18, 2013 | author: FarmPolicyFacts
by Rene Pastor To many people, Brazil’s image in the sugar and ethanol market is that of low-cost operators who used their smarts and free-market...
