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What Others are Saying About the Farm Bill
The farm bill passed by Congress takes food and farm policy in the wrong direction. Here's what others have to say about the bill.
Top Six Reasons EWG Opposes the Farm Bill
The farm bill that passed the House this week and will likely pass the Senate next week has some positive features, including new conservation requirements for farm businesses that collect crop...
EWG’s Top Food and Ag Stories of 2013
EWG's editors asked the entire staff to pick the top agriculture-related stories of 2013, a category that includes the farm bill, farm subsidies, crop insurance, conservation, genetically engineered...
Will cotton subsidies ignite new trade dispute?
If the crop insurance proposals in the 2013 farm bill, including STAX, are enacted and their costs are as high as some expect, the United States could be in serious jeopardy of violating WTO trade...
Farm Bill Recipe for Financial Ruin?
By including the most costly components of the farm bills that passed the House and Senate, the bill expected to emerge this month from a House-Senate conference committee could cost taxpayers even...
Obama and Vilsack Push For Conservation Compliance
Congress Plays Hunger Games with Our Vets
If you fast-forward your TV during the celebrity segments on Real Time with Bill Maher, you probably missed an important conversation during the November 15th episode driven by actor Casey Affleck...
Republican Support Continues To Grow For Conservation Compliance
In Defense of Billionaires
Crop Insurance Subsidies Could Provide Bumper Crop of Budget Savings
Reducing subsidies to large farm businesses, crop insurance companies and their agents, and trimming their windfall profits could generate enormous savings, EWG has found.
Poverty Grows in Many Counties Alongside Higher Farm Subsidies
Crop Insurance: A never-ending disaster
As the cost of crop insurance has ballooned – from less than $500 million a year in the 1990s to more than $14 billion in 2012[1] – the program's most ardent defenders keep repeating the same mantra...
Bipartisan Coalition Would Link Land Conservation to Farm Subsidies
World Series of Subsidies
From Sea to Shining Sea: Subsidy Millionaires Are Everywhere
Should Foxes Build the Hen House?
Virgin Prairie Goes Under the Plow
Happy Direct Payments Day?
Means Testing Rich Farmers
Doesn't it make sense to subject some of the richest farmers to a means test when they seek federal subsidies to pay for their crop insurance?
