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Letter Urging Administration to Protect Crop Insurance in Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Proposal

NASDA

Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Sen. John Boozman, Ranking Member, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Rep. Rice Producers Association USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council USA Rice Western Peanut Growers Association Cc: Sen. GT Thompson, Chairman, Committee on Agriculture Rep.

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The USDA Plan to Better Measure Agriculture’s Impact on the Climate Crisis

Civil Eats

It is important that we embrace the notion of climate-smart agriculture and forestry, but to do that, we’ve got to get the science and the innovation right. resembling commodity agriculture systems based on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. We have to have accurate, reliable measurements of the impact.

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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025

Food Tank

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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Elementor #747575

National Young Farmers Coalition

Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). The Coalition worked with partners and Senators to introduce bi-partisan legislation to direct FSA to establish a pre-approval and pre-qualification pilot program for Direct Farmland Ownership loans this Fall, the Farm Ownership Improvement Act (S.