Posts Tagged ‘ Farm Bill ’

House Panel Hears From Small Business Produce Farmers

Aug 4th, 2009 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Politics & Policy

The next time you hear a farmer or a financier or somebody from the U.S. Department of Agriculture talk about “specialty crops,” keep this in mind: they are not talking about exotic food substances or uber-organic produce or anything like that. They are talking about everything that farmers grow that is not one of the [...]

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Second Stimuls Guts Rural Micro Program

Aug 25th, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Politics & Policy

When Congress finally got its act together to get a new Farm Bill to the President’s desk earlier this year, there was much cheer among rural development advocates, thanks to the mandatory funding for the new rural microenterprise development program written into the legislative language. That mandatory funding provision was important. Congress has a history [...]

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