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The cruelest farm bill ever
Don’t call it a budget bill. Call it the cruelest farm bill ever. The House budget bill will make it easier for wealthy farmers to receive farm subsidies and harder for poor people to receive anti...

House budget bill’s top farm subsidy loopholes and giveaways
Farm subsidies already favor the largest farms . But the budget reconciliation bill the House will consider this week is packed with farm subsidy loopholes that would make the problem worse. These...

‘City slicker’ farm payments top $2B – and House GOP bill would make problem worse
Almost 80,000 “city slickers” living in some of the biggest metro areas in the U.S. took in more than $2 billion in farm subsidies between 2020 and 2024. Many recipients used loopholes that allow the...

Almost 10,000 farmers have received subsidies for 40 straight years

10 questions for Agriculture Secretary nominee Brooke Rollins
Brooke Rollins, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Agriculture, will testify January 23 before the Senate Agriculture Committee. The panel’s...

Senate farm bill proposal makes climate a USDA priority
If enacted, the farm bill released this week by Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) would finally make it a permanent Department of Agriculture priority to support farmers...

Will agriculture be America’s leading source of greenhouse gas emissions?

USDA livestock subsidies top $72B

When is a farm bill not a farm bill? When it’s loaded with troubling provisions

‘City slicker’ farm payments hit $2.3B, with House GOP looking to increase payouts

The House farm bill is bad news for children’s health and safety

The House farm bill's disastrous dozen: 12 reasons to vote against GOP proposal
There’s plenty to dislike about the farm bill proposal the House Agriculture Committee will consider this week, including its Department of Agriculture funding cuts and problematic provisions that...

Benefit of boost in crop reference prices would mostly only aid large farmers in just 100 counties

More than 4,000 Black farms are gone and House Republican proposals to increase reference prices will make it worse
The number of Black farms in the U.S. plummeted by more than 4,000 from 2017 to 2022, yet some farm groups and House Republicans have proposed to tilt the playing field even further against them.

At least 10,000 farmers took over $11B in farm subsidies over 39 consecutive years

USDA should strategically expand list of climate-smart conservation practices

As farm income returns to normal levels, gaps continue to grow
While farm income is expected to return to normal levels in 2024, the gap between the largest, most successful farmers and their poorer neighbors continues to grow. Increasing farm subsidies, as some...

Increasing crop reference prices would hurt young farmers

Do billionaires get farm subsidies?
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USDA: Conservation backlogs grow despite new climate-smart funding
