Sentences with phrase «agriculture policy bill»

The bill was not heard in committee but it was offered as a floor amendment to the House agriculture policy bill (HF1717) but failed on an 80 - 53 vote.

The language was then added as a floor amendment to the House omnibus agriculture policy bill.

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«The farm bill should not be used for offsets,» said Ferd Hoefner, the policy director of the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

Approximately every five years, Congress reauthorizes the Farm Bill, a comprehensive piece of legislation that authorizes most federal policies governing food and agriculture programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

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The consultation gives an indication of the Government's current thinking on farming policy after Brexit, ahead of the Agriculture Bill, coming later this year.

Rep. John Katko will host a public forum on agriculture Tuesday in Wayne County as Congress begins work on the 2018 farm bill that sets the nation's agricultural policies.

SNAP is a part of the Farm Bill, a piece of legislation which authorizes most federal policies governing food and agriculture programs.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Katko will host a public forum on agriculture Tuesday in Wayne County as Congress begins work on the 2018 farm bill that sets the nation's agricultural policies.

And Representative Bill Owens of the North Country is discussing agriculture policy with the New York Farm Bureau.

«Primarily what the bill does is provide a signal that there is strong backing by Congress for the kinds of programs that have been operating by the Obama administration over the past eight years,» said Eric Muñoz, senior agriculture policy adviser for Oxfam America, who has been tracking the bill's progress.

A massive fiscal 2018 federal spending bill unveiled by congressional leaders Wednesday night includes a provision urging the heads of EPA, the Energy Department and the Agriculture Department to adopt policies that «reflect the carbon - neutrality of forest bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable energy source.»

The bill also includes a controversial directive instructing EPA, together with the energy and agriculture departments, to «establish clear policies that reflect the carbon neutrality of biomass.»

With regard to bill C - 468, the NDP's Agriculture critic, Alex Atamanenko, MP, has also been working to promote policies that protect animals from the various stresses they may endure during the excessively long transport times allowed under the current regulatory regime.

Each bill has been referred to the agriculture policy committees.

Yesterday, the Agriculture Policy Committee of the Missouri House of Representatives unanimously backed a bill, HB 131, that would remove most of the requirements of Missouri's Proposition B. HB 131 appears to be a straight companion bill to SB 113, which got the endorsement of the Senate Agriculture Policy Committee a couple of weeks ago.

In one interesting session Thursday [video], a pair of (current and former) secretaries of agriculture, Tom Vilsack and Dan Glickman, discussed food policy and politics, focusing in part on some under - appreciated aspects of the latest farm bill, including provisions boosting the value of food stamps at farmers» markets.

Description: Omnibus agriculture policy and finance bill featuring a hemp amendment providing framework for the state's Department of Agriculture to develop a pilot program allowing participation from the state's higher - education academic institutions as well as public and privaagriculture policy and finance bill featuring a hemp amendment providing framework for the state's Department of Agriculture to develop a pilot program allowing participation from the state's higher - education academic institutions as well as public and privaAgriculture to develop a pilot program allowing participation from the state's higher - education academic institutions as well as public and private growers.

SF 2737 Omnibus agriculture and veterans policy bill.

ALEC and Heartland have shared numerous staff and «experts» over the years, including Sandy Liddy Bourne, who was ALEC's Director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force for the from 1999 - 2004, before being promoted to Director of Legislation and Policy, where she oversaw all of ALEC's task forces and helped boost state enactment of ALEC's corporate bills from 11 percent to 20 percent.

Food Policy Action is mobilizing stakeholders from across the United States to voice their united opposition to the draft 2018 Farm Bill released by the House Agriculture Committee.

As organic agriculture is the fastest growing agricultural sector — the majority of new farmers are choosing to farm using organic practices and organic farm management offers a long list of environmental benefits — I am hopeful Congress will incorporate Farm Bill policies that allow for continued and supported growth of the industry.

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Mark Bittman writes that the bill doesn't address the public policies it should, such as «encouragement and support for would - be new farmers and small farmers; «conservation» in the form of agriculture that doesn't seek to defeat nature; increased funding for research into sustainable agriculture.»

In 2011, Congress is scheduled to reauthorize the Farm Bill, the primary law that governs our domestic agriculture policy.