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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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# 24,500:
4:14 pm PDT, May 14,
Nina Ritter, Minnesota
Promoting conversation and ecologically sound farming practices, especially on the small farm scale will only help to create greater food security for our country. We have to stop subsidizing huge industrial farms that pollute our air, water, and land. We should be subsidizing CSAs, and promoting local foods and agriculture. And please please stop putting industrial-farmed food in our children's school lunches the nutritional value of industrial food is horrible compared with organic. We should be promoting grass feed or pastured meats, they are more ecologically sound and safer in terms of cattle. Feeding cattle corn greatly increases the chances of E. Coli outbreak.
Promoting conversation and ecologically sound farming practices, especially on the small farm scale will only help to create greater food security for our country. We have to stop subsidizing huge industrial farms that pollute our air, water, and land. We should be subsidizing CSAs, and promoting local foods and agriculture. And please please stop putting industrial-farmed food in our children's school lunches the nutritional value of industrial food is horrible compared with organic. We should be promoting grass feed or pastured meats, they are more ecologically sound and safer in terms of cattle. Feeding cattle corn greatly increases the chances of E. Coli outbreak.
# 24,499:
8:20 pm PDT, May 13,
Vicki Korhammer, Missouri
# 24,498:
6:13 pm PDT, May 13,
Helen B. Decker, California
We need to be able to fully fund conservation incentives programs and to bring about reasonable reforms to farm subsidy programs. This will help the farmers to conserve American lands. It is a no brainer. Please help bring this about.
We need to be able to fully fund conservation incentives programs and to bring about reasonable reforms to farm subsidy programs. This will help the farmers to conserve American lands. It is a no brainer. Please help bring this about.
# 24,497:
10:47 pm PDT, May 12,
Connie Curnow, Utah
# 24,496:
7:18 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, California
# 24,495:
6:20 pm PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, California
# 24,494:
6:25 am PDT, May 12,
Mary Morris, Texas
# 24,493:
11:49 pm PDT, May 11,
Radha McAlpine, Florida
# 24,492:
8:35 pm PDT, May 11,
Michael Sandstrom, Tennessee
# 24,491:
3:05 pm PDT, May 11,
Frank Walter, Arizona
# 24,490:
1:28 pm PDT, May 11,
Ashley Prettyman, Pennsylvania
# 24,489:
11:56 pm PDT, May 10,
Margarita Bowers, Ohio
# 24,488:
11:12 pm PDT, May 10,
Shannon Winchester, California
# 24,487:
4:51 pm PDT, May 9,
M Chaiken, Vermont
# 24,486:
10:52 am PDT, May 9,
Marianne Wielgosz, Illinois
Food is a national security issue!
Food is a national security issue!
# 24,485:
10:31 am PDT, May 9,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 24,484:
10:25 am PDT, May 9,
Gail Freel, New Mexico
# 24,483:
7:22 am PDT, May 9,
Sona Pradhan, India
# 24,482:
4:00 am PDT, May 9,
Christina Willms, Germany
# 24,481:
7:39 pm PDT, May 8,
Alyssa Schwartz, Wisconsin
# 24,480:
7:37 pm PDT, May 8,
Parth Sarathi Mahapatra, India
# 24,479:
4:23 pm PDT, May 8,
Marisa Cirillo, Florida
# 24,478:
12:21 pm PDT, May 8,
Gerard Jameson, Florida
# 24,477:
10:57 am PDT, May 8,
Tim Speedle, California
PLEASE DON'T CUT SOLAR FUNDING? FOR NEW DECIDES & AGES TWO COME OVER THE YEARS? THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDINGS SO MUCH?
PLEASE DON'T CUT SOLAR FUNDING? FOR NEW DECIDES & AGES TWO COME OVER THE YEARS? THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDINGS SO MUCH?
# 24,476:
10:27 am PDT, May 8,
Stephanie Free - Arbor, California
Since big business has forced many family farmers out of work and off the land, the quality of our lives has steadily diminished. The soil is depleted, deadly chemicals become part of the food, soil and water, and diseases can easily devastate a monoculture crop. Let us SUPPORT the PEOPLE who CARE FOR the LAND. Their food: better nutrients, fewer chemicals = HEALTH. My uncle Jack in Kansas is a wheat farmer. He wore a hat to our last reunion that said "If you think crime doesn't pay, TRY FARMING!" A sad thought from a practitioner of one of the worlds oldest professions; which FEEDS us ALL.
Since big business has forced many family farmers out of work and off the land, the quality of our lives has steadily diminished. The soil is depleted, deadly chemicals become part of the food, soil and water, and diseases can easily devastate a monoculture crop. Let us SUPPORT the PEOPLE who CARE FOR the LAND. Their food: better nutrients, fewer chemicals = HEALTH. My uncle Jack in Kansas is a wheat farmer. He wore a hat to our last reunion that said "If you think crime doesn't pay, TRY FARMING!" A sad thought from a practitioner of one of the worlds oldest professions; which FEEDS us ALL.
# 24,475:
10:14 am PDT, May 8,
Susan Lesko, Pennsylvania
# 24,474:
10:01 am PDT, May 8,
Daniel Robinson, Colorado
# 24,473:
9:29 am PDT, May 8,
Megan Comey, Iowa
# 24,472:
9:20 am PDT, May 8,
Katie Greenie, Maine
# 24,471:
8:56 am PDT, May 8,
Jennifer Yuson, North Carolina
# 24,470:
6:47 am PDT, May 8,
Victoria Pittman, Texas
As a rancher/farmer I am in favor of conservation. I see 1st hand how conservation can improved quality of air/water not just for wildlife but for everyone on the planet. DO NOT CUT THE FUNDING FOR THE USDA'S .
As a rancher/farmer I am in favor of conservation. I see 1st hand how conservation can improved quality of air/water not just for wildlife but for everyone on the planet. DO NOT CUT THE FUNDING FOR THE USDA'S .
# 24,469:
5:49 am PDT, May 8,
Walter Von Schonfeld, North Carolina
# 24,468:
2:26 am PDT, May 8,
Andrew Watkins, Tennessee
# 24,467:
11:11 pm PDT, May 7,
Andrew Courtien, California
# 24,466:
10:05 pm PDT, May 7,
Susan Slate, Oklahoma
# 24,465:
9:48 pm PDT, May 7,
Maeve Callaghan, Illinois
# 24,464:
9:44 pm PDT, May 7,
Name not displayed, Kansas
# 24,463:
9:08 pm PDT, May 7,
Donna Schwartz, Arkansas
# 24,462:
9:04 pm PDT, May 7,
Patrick Ferraro, California
# 24,461:
8:58 pm PDT, May 7,
Mary Sterling, California
# 24,460:
8:51 pm PDT, May 7,
Patricia Kiley, Ohio
# 24,459:
8:28 pm PDT, May 7,
Theresa Billeaud, Louisiana
# 24,458:
7:33 pm PDT, May 7,
Chrystal Barrera, Georgia
the farmers grow the food we eat if we forget about them or neglect them then that hurts the production of our food and in turn affects the availability and the price and also beings that plants and trees make our oxygen that we need to live maybe we should take a step back and see who is also being affected by this
the farmers grow the food we eat if we forget about them or neglect them then that hurts the production of our food and in turn affects the availability and the price and also beings that plants and trees make our oxygen that we need to live maybe we should take a step back and see who is also being affected by this
# 24,457:
7:26 pm PDT, May 7,
Carolyn Gray, Florida
Please do not cut funding for the USDA's voluntary conservation inventives program below the 5.1 billion provided in the Senate version of the bill. Thank you, Carolyn gray
Please do not cut funding for the USDA's voluntary conservation inventives program below the 5.1 billion provided in the Senate version of the bill. Thank you, Carolyn gray
# 24,456:
5:51 pm PDT, May 7,
Jeff Oaks, Texas
# 24,455:
5:38 pm PDT, May 7,
Ed Zuschlag, New Jersey
# 24,454:
5:27 pm PDT, May 7,
Sharon Meeker, North Carolina
# 24,453:
4:57 pm PDT, May 7,
Mary Barnes, Tennessee
# 24,452:
4:54 pm PDT, May 7,
Alejandra Santa Ana, Texas
# 24,451:
4:49 pm PDT, May 7,
Shivraj Jhala, Rhode Island