{"id":1298,"date":"2018-05-30T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/food-faith\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2021-01-29T12:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:26:40","slug":"whats-going-on-with-the-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2018\/05\/30\/whats-going-on-with-the-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s going on with the Farm Bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">In case you missed the Zoom webinar, you can view the 34-minute video here:<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wezzrpl1LVI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><strong>Presenters:<\/strong> Juli Obudzinski, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (<a href=\"http:\/\/sustainableagriculture.net\/\">sign up for NSAC updates<\/a>); Lorette Picciano, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruralco.org\/\">Rural Coalition<\/a>; Rodrigo Rodriguez, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swop.net\/\">Southwest Organizing Project<\/a>; Nora Leccese, <a href=\"http:\/\/pcusa.org\/washington\">PC(USA) Office of Public Witness<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Farm Bill Update: What\u2019s Up<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The US government has until September 30, 2018 to pass a new Farm Bill.\u00a0 The House brought their Farm Bill to the floor and it was rejected on May 18 by every Democrat, and some moderate and Freedom Caucus Republicans, the latter wanting action on a restrictive immigration bill first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Below, I mention five areas of concern about the House bill, which they are still planning to put up for another vote, as of today.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Senate will reportedly unveil its Farm Bill in June. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">You may know the routine of bill passage. Once a bill makes it out of committee, each full chamber rejects or passes. When you have two bills, as in the case of the Farm Bill, the passed versions go to a joint committee where they are reconciled into a single bill. That bill goes back to the full House, then the Senate, and if passed in both, to the President for approval or veto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Concerns about the House&#8217;s version:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>SNAP<\/strong> <span class=\"s1\">\u2013 benefits would be cut by about $17 billion over ten years, primarily by toughening the work requirement rules, which would push an estimated 1.6 million beneficiaries off of SNAP.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>Conservation<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 the House bill would erase support for resource stewardship on 70 million acres (that\u2019s an area the size of Nevada) of working farm and ranchland by completely eliminating the Conservation Stewardship Program.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>Local food<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 the House bill abandons local farmers by\u00a0<i>cutting all funding<\/i>\u00a0for several programs that invest in helping farmers connect to local and regional buyers and in improving healthy food access.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>Beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 the House bill misses the mark by failing to invest more in beginning farmers, military veteran farmers, and farmers of color. With the average age of farmers continuing to rise, the status quo is not enough to ensure the success of these key farmer communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>Crop insurance and commodities<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 because prices are low compared to production costs and because of the many risks of farming, not least of which is extreme weather due to climate change, crop insurance is critical for farmers. But the House bill opens major new loopholes allowing for unlimited subsidies that will continue to distort land prices and create an unfair playing field for farmers.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For your guide to the Farm Bill\u00a0&#8212; complete with questions you can ask your local, state or federal candidates &#8212;<\/span> d<span style=\"color: #000000\">ownload\u00a0the PC(USA)&#8217;s<\/span><strong style=\"color: #800000\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/eaters-guide-to-the-farm-bill.docx\">Eater&#8217;s Guide to the Farm Bill<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/eaters-guide-to-the-farm-bill.docx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/button_eaters-guide-to-the-farm-bill-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <a style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/pcusa\/mlm\/signup\/\"><strong>Sign up<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>for the PC(USA) <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/pcusa\/mlm\/signup\/\">Office of Public Witness Email Alerts<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>to\u00a0join with other Presbyterians and people of conscience in advocating for these important policies.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1303 size-medium\" style=\"color: #000000;text-align: center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/fb-quad-500x185.png\" alt=\"farm bill graphic\" width=\"500\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you missed the Zoom webinar, you can view the 34-minute video here: Presenters: Juli Obudzinski, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (sign up for NSAC updates); Lorette Picciano, Rural Coalition; Rodrigo Rodriguez, Southwest Organizing Project; Nora Leccese, PC(USA) Office of Public Witness Farm Bill Update: What\u2019s Up The US government has until September 30, 2018&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2018\/05\/30\/whats-going-on-with-the-farm-bill\/\" title=\"ReadWhat&#8217;s going on with the Farm Bill?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,165],"tags":[33,298,113,17,24,121,1480],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-farm-bill","tag-environment","tag-farm-bill","tag-farming","tag-food-justice","tag-hunger","tag-justice","tag-take-action"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v23.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s going on with the Farm Bill? - Food and Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2018\/05\/30\/whats-going-on-with-the-farm-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s going on with the Farm Bill?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In case you missed the Zoom webinar, you can view the 34-minute video here: Presenters: Juli Obudzinski, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (sign up for NSAC updates); Lorette Picciano, Rural Coalition; Rodrigo Rodriguez, Southwest Organizing Project; Nora Leccese, PC(USA) Office of Public Witness Farm Bill Update: What\u2019s Up The US government has until September 30, 2018... 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