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Grocery, hunger, farm, fuel groups react to Senate farm bill
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Photo by Fred HendricksFarmBill-RFP-081026Grocery, anti-hunger, farm, fuel and conservation groups have varying and detailed reactions to the Farm Bill 2.0 text that Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman, R-Ark., released Friday.
We appreciate the administration’s call for Congress to move this process forward and urgently deliver a farm bill to the president’s desk.”
“We’ve lost 200,000 farms in a decade, and a modernized farm bill will help stabilize the struggling farm economy.
The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance said it “supports any step that brings us closer to enacting a bipartisan five-year farm bill before the end of this year.”
We urge Congress to get a five-year farm bill across the finish line this year.”