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Support Conservation Funding in the Farm Bill!
Target: U.S. Senate, U.S. CongressSponsored by: Environmental Defense Fund
The Senate passed its version of the Farm Bill in December, 2007, providing some important conservation funding increases.
The House and Senate now must reconcile the differences between the two versions of the bill and produce a final bill for the president to sign. It's critical for Congress to produce a final bill that includes $5.1 billion in additional conservation program funding - the level provided in the Senate bill - and makes some reasonable reforms to farm subsidy programs.
Tell your Representatives and Senators not to cut funding for USDA's voluntary conservation incentives programs and to take that message to Congressional and Agriculture Committee Leadership.
The House and Senate now must reconcile the differences between the two versions of the bill and produce a final bill for the president to sign. It's critical for Congress to produce a final bill that includes $5.1 billion in additional conservation program funding - the level provided in the Senate bill - and makes some reasonable reforms to farm subsidy programs.
Tell your Representatives and Senators not to cut funding for USDA's voluntary conservation incentives programs and to take that message to Congressional and Agriculture Committee Leadership.
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# 24,300:
1:20 pm PDT, May 2,
Ann Moore, Alabama
# 24,299:
11:32 am PDT, May 2,
Amy Schmidt, New Mexico
# 24,298:
10:06 am PDT, May 2,
Julie Larsen, California
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8:38 am PDT, May 2,
Crissy Baker, Florida
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6:50 am PDT, May 2,
Rod Snow, Canada
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5:31 am PDT, May 2,
Sherry Dickerson, Michigan
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4:45 am PDT, May 2,
Jan Showers, Massachusetts
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3:19 pm PDT, May 1,
Manoj Paul, Illinois
# 24,292:
2:30 pm PDT, May 1,
Jeanie Buerger, Massachusetts
I care about the farms. Do you
I care about the farms. Do you
# 24,291:
2:01 pm PDT, May 1,
Oana Ichim, Romania
# 24,290:
10:41 am PDT, May 1,
Alison Chabonais, Florida
Watch the fertizler, pesticide and herbicide trucks pull up to commercial farms and you'll never eat from them again. They all have a big skull & crossbones on them - with good reason!
Watch the fertizler, pesticide and herbicide trucks pull up to commercial farms and you'll never eat from them again. They all have a big skull & crossbones on them - with good reason!
# 24,289:
9:50 am PDT, May 1,
Valentina Bernasconi, Italy
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9:39 am PDT, May 1,
Kimberly Hart, North Carolina
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9:16 am PDT, May 1,
Laura Arntz, Oregon
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2:48 am PDT, May 1,
Jim Yoshioka, Hawaii
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10:04 pm PDT, Apr 30,
Nicole Strathmann, Missouri
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8:35 pm PDT, Apr 30,
Zoe Van Nostrand, Georgia
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5:14 pm PDT, Apr 30,
Barry Parks, New Mexico
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10:38 am PDT, Apr 30,
Name not displayed, Michigan
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10:28 am PDT, Apr 30,
Christine Jordan, Illinois
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9:17 am PDT, Apr 30,
Tracy Watson, Michigan
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7:04 pm PDT, Apr 29,
Kyle Hartman, Arizona
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6:15 pm PDT, Apr 29,
Danielle Ostafinski, Michigan
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6:01 pm PDT, Apr 29,
Lucila Torres, Texas
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5:45 pm PDT, Apr 29,
KRISANN GUIDOTTI, New York
TAKE CARE OF THOSE WHO TAKE CARE OF US.STOP YOUR NONSENSE.SUPPORT THE FARM PROGRAM.SUPPORT THE HUMAN BEINGS OF THE WORLD.FEED THE WORLD.BECOME THE HUMANITARIAN AMERICA ONCE MORE.GOD SHEDS HIS LIGHT ON THEE,AND CROWN THY GOOD WITH BROTHERHOOD FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA. |
# 24,275:
1:47 pm PDT, Apr 29,
Nathan Noll, Michigan
We need to start looking to more sustainable and ecologically friendly food production options. An average meal takes tens of thousands of miles for all of the ingredients to reach your dinner plate. Small scale farms help feed local populations in a more efficient way. They also are more likely farm sustainably, because they can't afford to do otherwise. they have the ability to focus more on ecological integrity as they maintain a smaller more industrial farm. Smaller farms also help keep local economies more healthy and more stable. The food from these farms is more nutritious and delicious as well. Food that is picked early never has the full nutritional potential, nor the full flavor.
We need to start looking to more sustainable and ecologically friendly food production options. An average meal takes tens of thousands of miles for all of the ingredients to reach your dinner plate. Small scale farms help feed local populations in a more efficient way. They also are more likely farm sustainably, because they can't afford to do otherwise. they have the ability to focus more on ecological integrity as they maintain a smaller more industrial farm. Smaller farms also help keep local economies more healthy and more stable. The food from these farms is more nutritious and delicious as well. Food that is picked early never has the full nutritional potential, nor the full flavor.
# 24,274:
12:27 pm PDT, Apr 29,
Susie Holman, United Kingdom
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9:53 am PDT, Apr 29,
Sean Gee, Washington D.C.
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1:53 am PDT, Apr 29,
Ashley Maassen, Indiana
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4:04 pm PDT, Apr 28,
Mary Bishop, Michigan
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12:54 pm PDT, Apr 28,
R. Shishido, California
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12:45 pm PDT, Apr 28,
Wanja Velthuis, Netherlands
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12:13 pm PDT, Apr 28,
Odette Rickert, Hawaii
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10:26 am PDT, Apr 28,
Aline Devleeschouwer, Belgium
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10:03 am PDT, Apr 28,
Name not displayed, California
Humane practices are better for animals and humans!
Humane practices are better for animals and humans!
# 24,265:
9:08 am PDT, Apr 28,
Patrycja Ryszka, Poland
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8:03 am PDT, Apr 28,
Vanessa Sandy, West Virginia
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8:01 am PDT, Apr 28,
Nikki Loeffel, South Carolina
# 24,262:
7:13 am PDT, Apr 28,
Maria Acosta, New York
more organic food more healthy Americans
more organic food more healthy Americans
# 24,261:
11:44 pm PDT, Apr 27,
Sasha Botos, Washington
Please move on this issue, it is so important to our environment!
Please move on this issue, it is so important to our environment!
# 24,260:
7:22 pm PDT, Apr 27,
Beverly Harris, California
Anyone who has eaten organic food would know immediately the difference in taste and nutrition. I believe it is imperative to further funding for such programs that include organic farming if we want to obtain good health for us and the environment. Thank you for your consideration of keeping the importance of organic farming on your mind when you cast your vote on this important legislation.
Anyone who has eaten organic food would know immediately the difference in taste and nutrition. I believe it is imperative to further funding for such programs that include organic farming if we want to obtain good health for us and the environment. Thank you for your consideration of keeping the importance of organic farming on your mind when you cast your vote on this important legislation.
# 24,259:
5:38 pm PDT, Apr 27,
Gary Lampman, Tennessee
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4:28 pm PDT, Apr 27,
Name not displayed, Minnesota
ranchers and farmers are able to help improve the environment the earth needs to go back to a more natural state.
ranchers and farmers are able to help improve the environment the earth needs to go back to a more natural state.
# 24,257:
2:13 pm PDT, Apr 27,
Mariya Smetaniuk, New York
We are all going green to make this earth a better place for all. Helping each other is key -- enrolling in USDA's voluntary conservation programs is so very vital that making cuts in funding would undermine our determination as a people in making this a healthier earth. Enhancing wildlife habitats, improving water and air quality are examples of what would be lost if this important funding were to be cut. Please support these critical conservation priorities and make farmland stewardship the centerpiece of the 2008 Farm Bill.
We are all going green to make this earth a better place for all. Helping each other is key -- enrolling in USDA's voluntary conservation programs is so very vital that making cuts in funding would undermine our determination as a people in making this a healthier earth. Enhancing wildlife habitats, improving water and air quality are examples of what would be lost if this important funding were to be cut. Please support these critical conservation priorities and make farmland stewardship the centerpiece of the 2008 Farm Bill.
# 24,256:
10:07 am PDT, Apr 27,
Leah G., Missouri
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9:09 am PDT, Apr 27,
Daniele Millay, Kentucky
# 24,254:
8:11 am PDT, Apr 27,
Dina Vivian, New York
Conservation programs, a return to the sustaineable and organic frming and the serach for alternative farming methods (e.g., skyfarming) are some of the possible solution to the present ever growing crisis that we are experiencing in the destruction of our planet and its inhabitants.
Conservation programs, a return to the sustaineable and organic frming and the serach for alternative farming methods (e.g., skyfarming) are some of the possible solution to the present ever growing crisis that we are experiencing in the destruction of our planet and its inhabitants.
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7:45 am PDT, Apr 27,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
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7:45 am PDT, Apr 27,
Tammy L. Fox, Arkansas
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Stephen Adesida, Pennsylvania