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The 2018 farm bill or Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 is an enacted United States farm bill that reauthorized $867 billion for many expenditures approved in the prior farm bill (the Agricultural Act of 2014). The bill was passed by the Senate and House on December 11 and 12, 2018, respectively.
The law makes it illegal to slaughter cats and dogs for food at the federal level, with exceptions for certain indigenous religious or cultural practices. Former President Trump signed the bill ...
A source in Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) office confirmed this week that the GOP-controlled House plans to seek an extension of the 2018 farm bill, the last major version of the legislation ...
The most recent of these Farm Bills, the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill), authorizes policies in the areas of commodity programs and crop insurance, conservation on agricultural lands, agricultural trade (including foreign food assistance), nutrition (primarily domestic food assistance), farm credit, rural economic ...
The first farm bill of the new millennium was the Farm Security Act of 2002, which was signed into law on May 13, 2002. [23] Some of the bill's major changes in comparison to the 1996 bill include an alteration of the farm payment program and the introduction of counter-cyclical farm income support.
More than 300 U.S. farm and commodity groups urged Congress in a letter on Monday to pass a long-delayed farm spending bill before the end of the year, as farmers face a projected decline in income.
It was passed by the Senate as part of the 2018 Farm Bill on December 11, 2018. The House passed the reconciled Farm Bill on December 12. On December 20, 2018, President Donald Trump signed it into law. [2] [3] The law penalizes "eating cats and dogs with fines of up to $5,000".
A typical farm bill runs almost 1,000 pages, so there is plenty to discuss beyond conservation principles. And discussion has been going on for a while. The Register started publishing guest ...