Farm Bill could take food from Florida’s poor and money from conservation
Preserving conservation programs will help Florida farmers adopt sustainable practices and protect our soil and waterways.
Preserving conservation programs will help Florida farmers adopt sustainable practices and protect our soil and waterways.
Voluntary programs in the farm bill provide financial and technical assistance to landowners to implement conservation practices.
Imagine a Florida without oranges, Maine without blueberries or California without wine.
We must influence Congress to promote the public good instead of the narrow private interests supported in past farm bills.
Last year, farmers, ranchers, sportsmen and wildlife advocates earned a $20 billion increase for conservation programs
Congress has a chance once every five years to transform conservation in agriculture. Will they take it?
The next farm bill is projected to cost taxpayers $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
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