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Congress has a chance once every five years to transform conservation in agriculture. Will they take it?

Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin reintroduced the Guaranteeing Robust Agricultural Independence and Nutrit...

Letters to the editor for May 29-June 4, 2023.

(Archived document, may contain errors) 962 October 7, 1993 THENATIONALpERMlRMANcEREVIEW FALLING SHORT OF REAL GOWRNMENT REFORM The federal government is not simply broke; it is broken The National Performance Review I INTRODUCT ION When Vice President Al Gore released the recommendations of The National Performance Review (NPR) on September 7, Americans were told this was a blueprint for reinventing government. The six-month-long, government-wide investigation was intended to pr oduce a plan to...

The current farm bill does not expire until September 30, 2002. The President should veto the new farm bill and allow Congress to spend the next five months crafting a better bill that incorporatesmarket principles, opens global markets, and does not cost Americantaxpayers and consumers hundreds of billions of dollars.

This year’s Farm Bill could help expand existing agroforestry programs to more explicitly include silvopasture.

Senator Chuck Grassley recently spoke with reporters on a number of subjects. Topics discussed include: Sen. Grassley's fourth Federal Judiciary Youth

Maine's congressional delegation is backing efforts to secure funding for more PFAS research at the federal level.

The goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture’s environmental impact.

By integrating trees and pasture, farmers can increase their bottom line and protect livestock from hotter summers.