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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.
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.
The last Farm Bill was signed into law by Trump in 2018 during his first term. Since then, the legislation has been in limbo, awaiting updates until September 2025, when Congress is scheduled to ...
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 ...
The first farm bill, known as the Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA), was passed by Congress in 1933 as a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. [8] The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 is the most recent farm bill, prior to this one.
The Farm Bill covers many programs that impact farmers, rural communities, and consumers across the nation. As the Congressional Research Service (CRS) explains, The Farm Bill is typically renewed ...
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 ...