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Monthly Archives: November 2013

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Farm Policy: FY13 in Review

Current Farm PolicyBy Farm Policy FactsNovember 20, 2013Leave a comment

As the worst drought in three decades unfolded last year, opponents of farm programs almost gleefully predicted that taxpayers would be on the hook for $40 billion in crop insurance claims this past fiscal year. Those “experts” grossly overestimated crop insurance costs by about $26 billion.  And while crop insurance indemnities in fiscal year 2013…

It’s No Secret: AP Article About So-Called ‘Dirty Ethanol’ Ignores Facts

Current Farm PolicyBy Farm Policy FactsNovember 14, 2013Leave a comment

If you’re in need of some lining for your puppy crate, reach no further than this week’s Associated Press article about the so-called secret environmental cost of ethanol. The real secret here? How something as one-sided as this got published in the first place. Even USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has stated that the AP project…

Grand Forks Herald Op-Ed: Don’t Take Farm Bill’s Success for Granted

Current Farm PolicyBy Farm Policy FactsNovember 13, 2013Leave a comment

The following editorial appeared recently in the Grand Forks Herald: OUR OPINION: Don’t take Farm Bill’s success for granted “People can debate how much help the poor should get and whether it’s optimal to deliver aid in the form of food stamps,” the Washington Post editorialized in June. “But it’s beyond debate — or should be —…

Our View: Time to Tune Out EWG

Current Farm PolicyBy Farm Policy FactsNovember 12, 2013Leave a comment

We didn’t think it could get more egregious than the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and its hired guns overestimating 2012 drought related expenses by an unbelievable $26 billion then proceeding to compare the men and women who feed America to cheap drunks at an open bar. We were wrong. EWG’s report “Billionaires cash in on…

American Agriculture Stepping Up to the Plate…Again

Current Farm PolicyBy Farm Policy FactsNovember 6, 2013Leave a comment

by Tonya Allen It’s a novel concept—folks sitting down together to sort out their differences.   So novel in fact, at least in the halls of Congress, that not a single Conference Committee Meeting has been held all year … until last week.   The fact that the first Conference Committee Meeting of the 113th Congress…

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