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The last-minute Continuing Resolution will fund the government until March 14, allocate about $100 billion in disaster relief and extend the farm bill. It received a total of 366 favorable votes ...
Pass an extension of the current farm bill. Pass a new farm bill (with or without a new permanent law provision). While the uncertainty still looms over the Farm Bill, one thing is certain: The ...
American farmers are hoping that aid to agriculture will be revived as Congress struggles to pass a short-term spending bill that would keep the federal government funded and avert a looming ...
The 2013 farm bill was approved in the Senate on June 10, 2013, [29] but did not pass the House. [33] The 2014 farm bill, known as the Agricultural Act of 2014, was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 7, 2014, two years late, as authority under its predecessor, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of ...
The 2018 Farm Bill was not extended after Sept. 30, 2024, potentially affecting programs such as nutrition and conservation, among other agricultural programs due to the end of the fiscal year.
Congress extended the 2018 Farm Bill for now, but no new bill creates more uncertainty for America's 2 million farmers.
On January 29, 2014, the House voted 251–166 to pass the bill. [3] In the House, a majority of Republicans voted in favor of the bill (163–62) and the Democrats split almost evenly (89–103). [4] The Senate then voted 68–32 on February 4, 2014, to approve the full five-year farm bill, sending it to President Barack Obama to be signed ...
In United States federal agriculture legislation, the Agricultural Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-524) initiated a significant change in commodity support policy. [1]This 3-year farm bill replaced some of the more restrictive and mandatory features of previous law (acreage allotments, planting restrictions, and marketing quotas) with voluntary annual cropland set-asides and marketing certificate ...