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

NASDA

As the challenges for America’s farmers and ranchers continue to grow, we believe crop insurance as a safety net is only becoming more important to stability in rural America and a secure domestic food supply. USDA and Congress have taken extraordinary ad hoc measures over the past few years to ensure the financial security of rural America.

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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

We write to express our gratitude for your efforts to advance the 2024 farm bill within your jurisdictions and to seek your continued support for passing this critical legislation before the end of the year. If Congress does not come together this year to enact a bipartisan farm bill, the legislative process will begin anew in the 119th Congress.

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Industry Ag News 7/28

Agwired

Celebrate marketing excellence by submitting your nominations for the NAMA Professional Development Awards by August 1. For more than 40 years, American Farmland Trust (AFT) has been helping preserve millions of farmland acres in the United States. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) that attacks commodity checkoff programs.

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Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NSAC hopes that Congress can ultimately see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs through RCPP, as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate. It also removes the guiding purpose of ensuring farmland is usable by the next generation.

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Young Farmers Appropriations Priorities for the Fiscal Year of 2025

National Young Farmers Coalition

Participating in appropriations means advocating for funding specific programs or initiatives related to agriculture, rural development, and food policy. The Farm Bill is a piece of legislation that is reauthorized every five to six years, impacting various issues related to agriculture, nutrition, and rural development.

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Understanding the COMET-Planner Tool

ATTRA

This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27 For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. tonnes per year, not zero.

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Farm Stops Create New Markets for Small Farms

Civil Eats

For example, in 2016, after receiving a complaint, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) cited Argus for selling eggs from small farms that hadn’t processed their eggs in a licensed facility. Under Michigan law, unlicensed egg producers can only sell their eggs directly to consumers. million in sales.

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