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It calls for creating a Duplicative Enrollment Database\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>that would determine who is eligible for benefits and \"to prevent supplemental nutrition assistance program participants from receiving duplicative benefits in multiple states,\" according to the text of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A plan to allow states to implement a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/6f5adff5efeb4f9a9075f76bf9cf5572\">drug testing\u003c/a> program for certain food stamp recipients is not in the draft. 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That idea, put forward in the president's most recent proposed federal budget, was widely criticized by anti-poverty advocates and grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional multi-billion-dollar programs aimed at supporting farmers, such as federally subsidized crop insurance, are preserved in Conaway's proposal. The vast majority of these subsidies go to the most widely planted crops: corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, soybeans, and wheat. The bill also maintains restrictions on sugar imports that prop up the price of domestically produced sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These subsidies have come under increasing criticism in recent years. Public health advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@adv/documents/downloadable/ucm_429110.pdf\">say\u003c/a> that government subsidies, if they exist at all, should promote the most nutritious crops, such as vegetables and fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists, meanwhile, are condemning a provision in Conaway's draft that would amend a completely separate law, one that governs pesticides. Conaway wants to eliminate a requirement that the Environmental Protection Agency consult with the other agencies, such as the Department of Interior, to determine whether a new pesticide could harm threatened or endangered species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/\">Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/a> said that this proposed change would \" ignore pesticides' harms to endangered species and eviscerate all meaningful protections for fish, animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft bill proposes other small changes in farm policy that reflect new concerns. It authorizes an expansion in enforcement of the National Organic Program to prevent fraudulent labeling of imports as organic. If passed, it would also authorize more funding to promote farmers' markets, and to fight the growing problem of wild pigs that have been destroying crops in certain areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Farm Bill traditionally comes up for renewal every five years. Congress passed the current version in 2014. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2018 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Republicans in Congress have released their version of a new Farm Bill. It imposes new requirements on low-income recipients of food assistance, but continues traditional subsidies for farmers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523745807,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":815},"headData":{"title":"Republican Farm Bill Calls On Many SNAP Recipients To Work Or Go To School | KQED","description":"Republicans in Congress have released their version of a new Farm Bill. It imposes new requirements on low-income recipients of food assistance, but continues traditional subsidies for farmers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Republican Farm Bill Calls On Many SNAP Recipients To Work Or Go To School","datePublished":"2018-04-14T22:43:27.000Z","dateModified":"2018-04-14T22:43:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"126761 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=126761","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2018/04/14/republican-farm-bill-calls-on-many-snap-recipients-to-work-or-go-to-school/","disqusTitle":"Republican Farm Bill Calls On Many SNAP Recipients To Work Or Go To School","source":"Politics, Activism, Food Safety","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/politics-activism-food-safety","nprImageCredit":"Seth Wenig","nprByline":"Brakkton Booker, Dan Charles, NPR Food","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"601900588","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=601900588&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/04/12/601900588/republican-farm-bill-calls-on-some-snap-recipients-to-work-or-go-to-school?ft=nprml&f=601900588","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:38:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:35:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:38:55 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/126761/republican-farm-bill-calls-on-many-snap-recipients-to-work-or-go-to-school","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If Republicans in Congress have their way, millions of people who get food aid through the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) will have to find a job or attend job training classes for about 20 hours each week, or lose their benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the biggest and most controversial part of a Republican-drafted \u003ca href=\"https://agriculture.house.gov/uploadedfiles/agriculture_and_nutrition_act_of_2018.pdf\">Farm Bill\u003c/a> unveiled this week by Michael Conaway, R-Texas, chairman of the Agriculture Committee in the House of Representatives. The rest of Conaway's proposal, however, represents continuity. Existing subsidies for farmers would continue in their current form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats — even those who support subsidies to farmers — are vowing to fight Conaway's draft bill because of its changes to the SNAP program. Collin Peterson D-Minn., the senior Democratic member of the House Agriculture Committee, said the SNAP changes would \"increase food insecurity and hardship.\" He accused his Republican colleagues of breaking up \"the long-standing, bipartisan, urban-rural ... alliance\" that has supported past farm bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, though, say the work requirement proposals are meant to assist those who may have fallen on hard times get back on their feet, off public assistance, and into the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that breaking this poverty cycle is really important,\" Conaway told reporters at a news conference unveiling the bill Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation calls for able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 59 to work or be enrolled in a job-training program for at least 20 hours a week beginning in fiscal year 2021. That minimum number of hours would jump to 25 hours per week starting in fiscal year 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who violate the work requirements could become ineligible for SNAP benefits for a 12-month period. Subsequent violations could result in three years of lost benefits, \"unless an individual obtains employment sufficient to meet the hourly requirement or is no longer subject to the work requirements at an earlier time,\" and other conditions, according to language in the summary of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also aims to cut down on potential SNAP fraud. It calls for creating a Duplicative Enrollment Database\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>that would determine who is eligible for benefits and \"to prevent supplemental nutrition assistance program participants from receiving duplicative benefits in multiple states,\" according to the text of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A plan to allow states to implement a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/6f5adff5efeb4f9a9075f76bf9cf5572\">drug testing\u003c/a> program for certain food stamp recipients is not in the draft. But Conaway did not\u003cem> \u003c/em>rule out that one could be added later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not in the bill base text, but we have some members on the committee who are keenly interested in that,\" Conway said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week President Trump signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/10/601332980/president-trump-turns-attention-to-welfare-programs\">executive order\u003c/a> calling on federal agencies to strengthen work requirements on public assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SNAP helps more than \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/datastatistics/january-performance-report-2018.pdf\">40 million needy individuals\u003c/a>, and nutrition programs account for approximately \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-commodity-policy/projected-spending-under-the-2014-farm-bill/\">80 percent\u003c/a> of the cost of the current farm bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conaway's draft bill does not mention the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/12/585130274/trump-administration-wants-to-decide-what-food-snap-recipients-will-get\">idea\u003c/a> — floated by the Trump administration — of distributing a portion of SNAP aid in the form of boxes of nonperishable food, rather than debit cards that people can use to buy food in supermarkets. That idea, put forward in the president's most recent proposed federal budget, was widely criticized by anti-poverty advocates and grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional multi-billion-dollar programs aimed at supporting farmers, such as federally subsidized crop insurance, are preserved in Conaway's proposal. The vast majority of these subsidies go to the most widely planted crops: corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, soybeans, and wheat. The bill also maintains restrictions on sugar imports that prop up the price of domestically produced sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These subsidies have come under increasing criticism in recent years. Public health advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@adv/documents/downloadable/ucm_429110.pdf\">say\u003c/a> that government subsidies, if they exist at all, should promote the most nutritious crops, such as vegetables and fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists, meanwhile, are condemning a provision in Conaway's draft that would amend a completely separate law, one that governs pesticides. Conaway wants to eliminate a requirement that the Environmental Protection Agency consult with the other agencies, such as the Department of Interior, to determine whether a new pesticide could harm threatened or endangered species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/\">Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/a> said that this proposed change would \" ignore pesticides' harms to endangered species and eviscerate all meaningful protections for fish, animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft bill proposes other small changes in farm policy that reflect new concerns. It authorizes an expansion in enforcement of the National Organic Program to prevent fraudulent labeling of imports as organic. If passed, it would also authorize more funding to promote farmers' markets, and to fight the growing problem of wild pigs that have been destroying crops in certain areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Farm Bill traditionally comes up for renewal every five years. Congress passed the current version in 2014. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2018 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/126761/republican-farm-bill-calls-on-many-snap-recipients-to-work-or-go-to-school","authors":["byline_bayareabites_126761"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_135","bayareabites_12707","bayareabites_11838"],"featImg":"bayareabites_126762","label":"source_bayareabites_126761"},"bayareabites_88428":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_88428","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"88428","score":null,"sort":[1412441294000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"two-for-one-subsidies-help-food-stamp-recipients-buy-fresh-food","title":"Two For One: Subsidies Help Food Stamp Recipients Buy Fresh Food","publishDate":1412441294,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodbucks_wide-04980f86fa9d971eaa9fbea8dc3c3a658144cf9b-e1412441141115.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodbucks_wide-04980f86fa9d971eaa9fbea8dc3c3a658144cf9b-e1412441141115.jpg\" alt=\"Tokens representing $1, which can be used specifically for fresh fruits and vegetables, are displayed at a Electronic Benefits Transfer, or food stamp, station in the GrowNYC Greenmarket in Union Square on September 18, 2013 in New York City. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88429\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tokens representing $1, which can be used specifically for fresh fruits and vegetables, are displayed at a Electronic Benefits Transfer, or food stamp, station in the GrowNYC Greenmarket in Union Square on September 18, 2013 in New York City. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey and Dan Charles, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/04/353522055/two-for-one-subsidies-help-food-stamp-recipients-buy-fresh-food\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/4/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/pressrelease/2014/021514\">just announced\u003c/a> that $31.5 million is now available as grants to programs that help make farm-fresh fruits and vegetables more affordable for families who rely on food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food Insecurity Nutrition Program is modeled on the Fair Food Network's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairfoodnetwork.org/what-we-do/projects/double-up-food-bucks\">Double Up Food Bucks\u003c/a> initiative in Michigan and Wholesome Wave's \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholesomewave.org/our-initiatives/double-value-coupon-program/\">Double Value Coupon program\u003c/a> at 350 farmers markets across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both programs boost the purchasing power of SNAP, or food stamps, at farmers markets. If a SNAP recipient uses $10 of their benefits at a farm market, they get $20 dollars worth of produce. The USDA grants, which have to be matched by private donations, will provide the $10 subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those dollars benefit both low-income consumers and local, small-scale farmers. Backers of such programs say that's good for public health and local communities. \"Helping families purchase more fresh produce is clearly good for families' health, helps contribute to lower health costs for the country, and increases local food sales for family farmers,\" Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA also \u003ca href=\"http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/09/0216.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent\">announced\u003c/a> $52 million in grants to support organic farming and local and regional \"food hubs.\" To illustrate what this means, Vilsack paid a visit to a Virginia farm operation (and USDA grantee) called Milton's Local Harvest, which calls itself a virtual marketplace. It connects local farmers with large-scale institutional purchasers of food who'd like to buy local but aren't set up to deal with lots of small farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both pots of money were created through the 2014 Farm Bill. \"These new programs will not only empower low-income Americans to provide their families with more healthy fruits and vegetables, they will also help strengthen local economies by investing in local food systems and organic agriculture,\" wrote Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ag.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/chairwoman-stabenow-applauds-new-programs\">statement\u003c/a>. Stabenow chairs the Senate's agriculture committee, and played a big role in creating the new programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales of locally produced food have expanded a lot over the last few years, and the USDA says this has led to new jobs. A 2011 USDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.usda.gov/documents/1-Whatandwhy.pdf\">study\u003c/a> concluded that produce growers supplying local and regional markets generate 13 full-time operator jobs for each million dollars in revenue earned, for a total of 61,000 jobs in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Consumers are increasingly demanding more local and organic options. Investing in local and regional food systems supports the livelihoods of farmers and ranchers, especially smaller operations, while strengthening economies in communities across the country, \" Vilsack said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We sat down with the founder of Wholesome Wave, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholesomewave.org/about-us/board/michel-nischan/\">Michel Nischan\u003c/a>, to chat about what these initiatives are likely to accomplish. He thinks they'll have a huge impact. SNAP purchases, he points out, add up to close to $80 billion a year. \"We think that if we can shift a good chunk of that $80 billion towards local and regional farming, it can actually change the food system.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"There a big new pot of government money available for programs that boost the buying power of food stamps. But there's a catch: The cash has to spent on local fruit and vegetables.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412441294,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":557},"headData":{"title":"Two For One: Subsidies Help Food Stamp Recipients Buy Fresh Food | KQED","description":"There a big new pot of government money available for programs that boost the buying power of food stamps. 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Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey and Dan Charles, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/04/353522055/two-for-one-subsidies-help-food-stamp-recipients-buy-fresh-food\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/4/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/pressrelease/2014/021514\">just announced\u003c/a> that $31.5 million is now available as grants to programs that help make farm-fresh fruits and vegetables more affordable for families who rely on food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food Insecurity Nutrition Program is modeled on the Fair Food Network's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairfoodnetwork.org/what-we-do/projects/double-up-food-bucks\">Double Up Food Bucks\u003c/a> initiative in Michigan and Wholesome Wave's \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholesomewave.org/our-initiatives/double-value-coupon-program/\">Double Value Coupon program\u003c/a> at 350 farmers markets across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both programs boost the purchasing power of SNAP, or food stamps, at farmers markets. If a SNAP recipient uses $10 of their benefits at a farm market, they get $20 dollars worth of produce. The USDA grants, which have to be matched by private donations, will provide the $10 subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those dollars benefit both low-income consumers and local, small-scale farmers. Backers of such programs say that's good for public health and local communities. \"Helping families purchase more fresh produce is clearly good for families' health, helps contribute to lower health costs for the country, and increases local food sales for family farmers,\" Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA also \u003ca href=\"http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/09/0216.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent\">announced\u003c/a> $52 million in grants to support organic farming and local and regional \"food hubs.\" To illustrate what this means, Vilsack paid a visit to a Virginia farm operation (and USDA grantee) called Milton's Local Harvest, which calls itself a virtual marketplace. It connects local farmers with large-scale institutional purchasers of food who'd like to buy local but aren't set up to deal with lots of small farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both pots of money were created through the 2014 Farm Bill. \"These new programs will not only empower low-income Americans to provide their families with more healthy fruits and vegetables, they will also help strengthen local economies by investing in local food systems and organic agriculture,\" wrote Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ag.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/chairwoman-stabenow-applauds-new-programs\">statement\u003c/a>. Stabenow chairs the Senate's agriculture committee, and played a big role in creating the new programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales of locally produced food have expanded a lot over the last few years, and the USDA says this has led to new jobs. A 2011 USDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.usda.gov/documents/1-Whatandwhy.pdf\">study\u003c/a> concluded that produce growers supplying local and regional markets generate 13 full-time operator jobs for each million dollars in revenue earned, for a total of 61,000 jobs in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Consumers are increasingly demanding more local and organic options. Investing in local and regional food systems supports the livelihoods of farmers and ranchers, especially smaller operations, while strengthening economies in communities across the country, \" Vilsack said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We sat down with the founder of Wholesome Wave, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholesomewave.org/about-us/board/michel-nischan/\">Michel Nischan\u003c/a>, to chat about what these initiatives are likely to accomplish. He thinks they'll have a huge impact. SNAP purchases, he points out, add up to close to $80 billion a year. \"We think that if we can shift a good chunk of that $80 billion towards local and regional farming, it can actually change the food system.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/88428/two-for-one-subsidies-help-food-stamp-recipients-buy-fresh-food","authors":["byline_bayareabites_88428"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_95","bayareabites_3032","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_135","bayareabites_10011","bayareabites_11838","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_8913","bayareabites_13865"],"featImg":"bayareabites_88429","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_77451":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_77451","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"77451","score":null,"sort":[1391190984000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"small-cuts-to-food-stamps-add-up-to-big-pains-for-many-recipients","title":"Small Cuts To Food Stamps Add Up To Big Pains For Many Recipients","publishDate":1391190984,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/img_1840_wide-1b5ab43fb0eba15c25fece23421e25d8d83550b0.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/img_1840_wide-1b5ab43fb0eba15c25fece23421e25d8d83550b0-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"The farm bill proposes a $1 billion cut to food stamps, which would affect nearly 850,000 struggling families who already depend on food banks like the Alameda County Community Food Bank in Oakland, Calif. Photo: Antonio Mena/Courtesy of Alameda County Community Food Bank\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The farm bill proposes a $1 billion cut to food stamps, which would affect nearly 850,000 struggling families who already depend on food banks like the Alameda County Community Food Bank in Oakland, Calif. Photo: Antonio Mena/Courtesy of Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100569/richard-gonzales\">Richard Gonzales\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/30/268876193/small-cuts-to-food-stamps-add-up-to-big-pains-for-many-recipients\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/30/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/30/268876193/small-cuts-to-food-stamps-add-up-to-big-pains-for-many-recipients\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/01/20140130_atc_farm_bill_proposes_minor_cuts_with_major_consequences_for_food_stamps.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare display of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives Wednesday approved a massive five-year farm bill that costs nearly half a trillion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill includes some reductions to food stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, to the tune of nearly $1 billion a year. It's far less than what many Republicans had wanted. But the cuts are large enough to worry some Democrats and many food stamp recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes, the farm bill will reduce these SNAP benefits for 850,000 households across the country, more than a third of which are in California, costing them about $90 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts will come from closing a loophole used in 16 states and Washington, D.C. known as \"heat and eat.\" Recipients get a token amount of federal heating help that they can turn into additional food stamp benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.accfb.org/about_us/about_staff/\">Allison Pratt\u003c/a> at the Alameda County Community Food Bank says the impact of this change to the program is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is really a layering on one cut after the other and we really are concerned about how families are going to cope with these cuts,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of the cuts are likely to be felt in places like the Downs Memorial United Methodist Church in North Oakland, Calif., where Wednesdays are reserved for anyone who needs a free lunch and a bag of produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 250 hot lunches are served by smiling volunteers to poor, unemployed people on the margins, like Raymond Garza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm an ex-plumber, I'm actually disabled and I'm homeless,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 52, Garza is a fireplug of a man. He says when times were good, he earned $80,000 a year. But a few years back he suffered a stroke and life has never been the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today he lives in a trailer. He comes to Downs Memorial because he's used up his $176 allotment in food stamps for January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And it's terrible. Everyday I wake up, I'm struggling to eat. I got my food stamps on the 10th. Today's the 29th. I got another 10 days before I can go buy some food again,\" says Garza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ex-plumber saw his benefits cut back in November by about $30 a month when the food stamp program was reduced nationwide by $11 billion. Now, he may face yet another cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates of the poor say the proposed cuts could have been worse. But a group of Democratic lawmakers say any cuts are inflicting pain on working families in favor of preserving some major subsidies to farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if you vote for this bill you will have to look them in the eye and tell them to go without food, that they have to endure hunger because we had to give more handouts to millionaires and billionaires,\" says Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/09/18/house-bill-would-cut-3-8-million-people-from-food-stamp-rolls/\">originally wanted\u003c/a> to cut food stamps by $40 billion over a decade, throwing almost 4 million people out of the program. As part of the compromise, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be barred from advertising the availability of benefits — a measure that Rep. Frank Thompson supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We reform food stamps and we do so through thoughtful targeted changes ensuring that those who truly need the assistance will receive it,\" the Pennsylvania Republican says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food stamp cuts would take effect for new applicants in March, pending Senate approval. And current recipients would see the reductions phased in between the summers of 2014 and 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate is expected to pass the bill next week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The proposed farm bill would cut nearly $1 billion a year from the food stamp program, known as SNAP. While it's far less than what Republicans had originally wanted, the proposal will affect roughly 850,000 households, many of which are still struggling from cuts made only three months ago.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1391190984,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":689},"headData":{"title":"Small Cuts To Food Stamps Add Up To Big Pains For Many Recipients | KQED","description":"The proposed farm bill would cut nearly $1 billion a year from the food stamp program, known as SNAP. 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Photo: Antonio Mena/Courtesy of Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100569/richard-gonzales\">Richard Gonzales\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/30/268876193/small-cuts-to-food-stamps-add-up-to-big-pains-for-many-recipients\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/30/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/30/268876193/small-cuts-to-food-stamps-add-up-to-big-pains-for-many-recipients\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/01/20140130_atc_farm_bill_proposes_minor_cuts_with_major_consequences_for_food_stamps.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare display of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives Wednesday approved a massive five-year farm bill that costs nearly half a trillion dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill includes some reductions to food stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, to the tune of nearly $1 billion a year. It's far less than what many Republicans had wanted. But the cuts are large enough to worry some Democrats and many food stamp recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes, the farm bill will reduce these SNAP benefits for 850,000 households across the country, more than a third of which are in California, costing them about $90 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts will come from closing a loophole used in 16 states and Washington, D.C. known as \"heat and eat.\" Recipients get a token amount of federal heating help that they can turn into additional food stamp benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.accfb.org/about_us/about_staff/\">Allison Pratt\u003c/a> at the Alameda County Community Food Bank says the impact of this change to the program is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is really a layering on one cut after the other and we really are concerned about how families are going to cope with these cuts,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of the cuts are likely to be felt in places like the Downs Memorial United Methodist Church in North Oakland, Calif., where Wednesdays are reserved for anyone who needs a free lunch and a bag of produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 250 hot lunches are served by smiling volunteers to poor, unemployed people on the margins, like Raymond Garza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm an ex-plumber, I'm actually disabled and I'm homeless,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 52, Garza is a fireplug of a man. He says when times were good, he earned $80,000 a year. But a few years back he suffered a stroke and life has never been the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today he lives in a trailer. He comes to Downs Memorial because he's used up his $176 allotment in food stamps for January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And it's terrible. Everyday I wake up, I'm struggling to eat. I got my food stamps on the 10th. Today's the 29th. I got another 10 days before I can go buy some food again,\" says Garza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ex-plumber saw his benefits cut back in November by about $30 a month when the food stamp program was reduced nationwide by $11 billion. Now, he may face yet another cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates of the poor say the proposed cuts could have been worse. But a group of Democratic lawmakers say any cuts are inflicting pain on working families in favor of preserving some major subsidies to farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if you vote for this bill you will have to look them in the eye and tell them to go without food, that they have to endure hunger because we had to give more handouts to millionaires and billionaires,\" says Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/09/18/house-bill-would-cut-3-8-million-people-from-food-stamp-rolls/\">originally wanted\u003c/a> to cut food stamps by $40 billion over a decade, throwing almost 4 million people out of the program. As part of the compromise, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be barred from advertising the availability of benefits — a measure that Rep. Frank Thompson supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We reform food stamps and we do so through thoughtful targeted changes ensuring that those who truly need the assistance will receive it,\" the Pennsylvania Republican says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food stamp cuts would take effect for new applicants in March, pending Senate approval. And current recipients would see the reductions phased in between the summers of 2014 and 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate is expected to pass the bill next week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/77451/small-cuts-to-food-stamps-add-up-to-big-pains-for-many-recipients","authors":["byline_bayareabites_77451"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_3032","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_135","bayareabites_10011","bayareabites_11838","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_77460","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_77336":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_77336","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"77336","score":null,"sort":[1390967632000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-bipartisan-farm-bill-emerges-from-long-debate-in-congress","title":"New Bipartisan Farm Bill Emerges From Long Debate In Congress","publishDate":1390967632,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/ap217933754460_wide-4c50f1c3a001e632e5b6c41a01c524cf0a7021dc.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/ap217933754460_wide-4c50f1c3a001e632e5b6c41a01c524cf0a7021dc-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"The new farm bill includes provisions to help livestock producers hit by natural disasters and extreme weather. Here, cattle stay warm in a barn in Illinois during this month's cold weather. Photo: Seth Perlman/AP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77337\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new farm bill includes provisions to help livestock producers hit by natural disasters and extreme weather. Here, cattle stay warm in a barn in Illinois during this month's cold weather. Photo: Seth Perlman/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/14562108/bill-chappell\">Bill Chappell\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/27/267266501/new-bipartisan-farm-bill-emerges-from-long-debate-in-congress\">The Two-Way at NPR\u003c/a> (1/27/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the House and Senate have reached a bipartisan agreement on a five-year farm bill that will end months of uncertainty for farmers and agriculture workers, its backers say. If enacted, it would close the gap left when the previous farm bill expired late in 2013, after an emergency extension lapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Agricultural Act of 2014, which will likely come up for a vote on Wednesday, reflects the many agendas that helped to complicate its creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It includes measures to reduce the deficit and eliminate programs. It addresses several conservation issues, and it \"maintains food assistance for families\" even as it targets abuse of that program, according to \u003ca href=\"http://agriculture.house.gov/press-release/house-senate-negotiators-announce-bipartisan-agreement-final-farm-bill\">identical statements\u003c/a> released by the House and Senate Agriculture Committees late Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The agreement reached on food stamps would cut spending by $8 billion over 10 years, or about one-fifth of the $40 billion sought by House Republicans,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-27/deep-cuts-in-food-stamps-said-averted-in-farm-bill-deal.html\">Bloomberg reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new bill would also end a long-criticized crop subsidy program that makes direct payments to farmers, replacing it in part with an enhanced crop insurance program. Another provision would aid livestock producers who are hit by natural disasters and severe weather, such as droughts and springtime freezes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics who feel those changes don't go far enough say, \"It's moonshine by another name,\" as Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group tells \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304361604579288802238911742\">\u003cem>The Wall Street Journal.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(NPR's Dan Charles \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/19/150948212/government-takeover-of-farm-subsidy-would-lower-cost-by-billions-economist-says\">reported for The Salt last year\u003c/a> that an Environmental Working Group analysis of the existing crop insurance program found that the government would save itself billions of dollars if it simply took over the crop insurance program and gave away a simpler version for free.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As speculation built that the Farm Bill would come out today, news of its possible provisions trickled out. For instance, the growth of industrial hemp would be allowed under the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/24/lawmakers-to-weigh-in-on-industrial-hemp-crops/\">the AP reported Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another closely watched issue, stronger animal welfare standards that were adopted in recent years by California and other states would not be outlawed by the new farm bill, despite attempts to insert an amendment to that effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a victory for state's rights,\" Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calf., tells \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/27/3735576/farm-bill-drops-plan-to-block.html\">The Fresno Bee\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Denham warned that the amendment \"would have led to a race to the bottom for agriculture production laws nationwide and imperiled the fate of California egg producers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Bee\u003c/em> reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The potential inclusion of the animal welfare provision, authored by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, had imperiled Californians' support for the overall bill. King's amendment targeted state provisions such as California's Proposition 2, a 2008 measure that required that certain animals be able to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and fully extend their limbs while confined.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update at 9 p.m. ET: A Tally Of The Costs, Cuts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total savings of the new farm bill is estimated at around $23 billion, according to a preliminary tally of the large new bill from congressional aides that NPR's Tamara Keith has sent along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number is arrived at by taking $10 billion in increased expenses for things such as crop insurance and support for specialty crops and bio-energy away from the total cuts of $33 billion, which are summarized here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$19 billion cut from farm subsidy programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$6 billion cut by combining 23 conservation programs into 13 programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$8 billion cut from food assistance programs (reportedly by reducing fraud and abuse)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A five-year farm bill will end months of uncertainty for farmers and agriculture workers, its backers say. The Agricultural Act of 2014 would also end a long-criticized farm subsidy program.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1390967632,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":629},"headData":{"title":"New Bipartisan Farm Bill Emerges From Long Debate In Congress | KQED","description":"A five-year farm bill will end months of uncertainty for farmers and agriculture workers, its backers say. 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Here, cattle stay warm in a barn in Illinois during this month's cold weather. Photo: Seth Perlman/AP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77337\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new farm bill includes provisions to help livestock producers hit by natural disasters and extreme weather. Here, cattle stay warm in a barn in Illinois during this month's cold weather. Photo: Seth Perlman/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/14562108/bill-chappell\">Bill Chappell\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/27/267266501/new-bipartisan-farm-bill-emerges-from-long-debate-in-congress\">The Two-Way at NPR\u003c/a> (1/27/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the House and Senate have reached a bipartisan agreement on a five-year farm bill that will end months of uncertainty for farmers and agriculture workers, its backers say. If enacted, it would close the gap left when the previous farm bill expired late in 2013, after an emergency extension lapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Agricultural Act of 2014, which will likely come up for a vote on Wednesday, reflects the many agendas that helped to complicate its creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It includes measures to reduce the deficit and eliminate programs. It addresses several conservation issues, and it \"maintains food assistance for families\" even as it targets abuse of that program, according to \u003ca href=\"http://agriculture.house.gov/press-release/house-senate-negotiators-announce-bipartisan-agreement-final-farm-bill\">identical statements\u003c/a> released by the House and Senate Agriculture Committees late Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The agreement reached on food stamps would cut spending by $8 billion over 10 years, or about one-fifth of the $40 billion sought by House Republicans,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-27/deep-cuts-in-food-stamps-said-averted-in-farm-bill-deal.html\">Bloomberg reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new bill would also end a long-criticized crop subsidy program that makes direct payments to farmers, replacing it in part with an enhanced crop insurance program. Another provision would aid livestock producers who are hit by natural disasters and severe weather, such as droughts and springtime freezes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics who feel those changes don't go far enough say, \"It's moonshine by another name,\" as Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group tells \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304361604579288802238911742\">\u003cem>The Wall Street Journal.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(NPR's Dan Charles \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/19/150948212/government-takeover-of-farm-subsidy-would-lower-cost-by-billions-economist-says\">reported for The Salt last year\u003c/a> that an Environmental Working Group analysis of the existing crop insurance program found that the government would save itself billions of dollars if it simply took over the crop insurance program and gave away a simpler version for free.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As speculation built that the Farm Bill would come out today, news of its possible provisions trickled out. For instance, the growth of industrial hemp would be allowed under the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/24/lawmakers-to-weigh-in-on-industrial-hemp-crops/\">the AP reported Friday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another closely watched issue, stronger animal welfare standards that were adopted in recent years by California and other states would not be outlawed by the new farm bill, despite attempts to insert an amendment to that effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a victory for state's rights,\" Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calf., tells \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/27/3735576/farm-bill-drops-plan-to-block.html\">The Fresno Bee\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Denham warned that the amendment \"would have led to a race to the bottom for agriculture production laws nationwide and imperiled the fate of California egg producers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Bee\u003c/em> reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The potential inclusion of the animal welfare provision, authored by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, had imperiled Californians' support for the overall bill. King's amendment targeted state provisions such as California's Proposition 2, a 2008 measure that required that certain animals be able to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and fully extend their limbs while confined.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update at 9 p.m. ET: A Tally Of The Costs, Cuts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total savings of the new farm bill is estimated at around $23 billion, according to a preliminary tally of the large new bill from congressional aides that NPR's Tamara Keith has sent along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number is arrived at by taking $10 billion in increased expenses for things such as crop insurance and support for specialty crops and bio-energy away from the total cuts of $33 billion, which are summarized here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$19 billion cut from farm subsidy programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$6 billion cut by combining 23 conservation programs into 13 programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$8 billion cut from food assistance programs (reportedly by reducing fraud and abuse)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/77336/new-bipartisan-farm-bill-emerges-from-long-debate-in-congress","authors":["byline_bayareabites_77336"],"categories":["bayareabites_3032","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_135","bayareabites_10011","bayareabites_11838","bayareabites_13004","bayareabites_11465"],"featImg":"bayareabites_77344","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_74754":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_74754","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"74754","score":null,"sort":[1386175772000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-7-per-gallon-milk-looms-once-again","title":"Why $7-Per-Gallon Milk Looms Once Again","publishDate":1386175772,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/milklandov2_wide-d0c5745374dfab08b0143045455bbae9070a8141.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/milklandov2_wide-d0c5745374dfab08b0143045455bbae9070a8141-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Sticker shock in the dairy aisle? If the government fails to pass the farm bill, milk prices could spike sometime after the first of the year. Photo: George Frey/Landov\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-74755\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sticker shock in the dairy aisle? If the government fails to pass the farm bill, milk prices could spike sometime after the first of the year. Photo: George Frey/Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/04/248648797/why-7-per-gallon-milk-looms-once-again\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/12/20131204_me_13.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/122805042/tamara-keith\">Tamara Keith\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/04/248648797/why-7-per-gallon-milk-looms-once-again\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/4/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees are meeting Wednesday as they continue to try and work out the differences between their respective farm bills. If they fail, the country faces what's being called the \"dairy cliff\" — with milk prices potentially shooting up to about $7 a gallon sometime after the first of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's why: The nation's farm policy would be legally required to revert back to what's called permanent law. In the case of dairy, that would be the 1949 farm bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if House and Senate negotiators fail to reconcile their farm bills, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warns, \"I'm going to be put in a position where I have to invoke and implement permanent law. And I will do my job because that's what I swore an oath to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that back in 1949, the dairy industry was much smaller and less efficient than the one that exists today, so it received bigger price supports from the federal government. And if U.S. policy reverted to the old law, the government would be forced to go into the marketplace and buy milk, butter and cheese at about double the going rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilsack says this would distort the market: \"So you, as a [milk] producer, would have a choice of selling it to your normal purchaser at $18 or $19 a hundred weight or to USDA at $38 a hundred weight. What do you think producers will do?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course the producers would sell to the government. And that, says Jim Dunn, a professor of agricultural economics at Penn State University, \"would be terrible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every refrigerated warehouse in the United States would be full of cheese and butter,\" he says, \"and non-refrigerated milk warehouses would be full of powdered milk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for the rest of us, he says, there would be sticker shock in the dairy aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilsack says there would be supply issues, too, because the federal government would own the commodities, but there would be shortages in the grocery store. Which is how we'd quickly end up facing milk at $7 a gallon --\"If you can find it,\" notes Vilsack. \"And that is why it is ludicrous for Congress not to get a farm bill done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk would only be the first commodity affected. Without a farm bill, other commodity prices would spike as well as the year went on, affecting every family in America. Farm policy, often obscure for most consumers, would get personal fast. If this all sounds like illogical and terrible policy — well, that's the point, says Vilsack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a great lever to compel action,\" he says of the invocation of permanent law that hovers over every farm bill. \"In most cases, it's the reason why we've had fairly routine extensions of the farm bill for the past 50 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Conaway, a Republican from Texas and a member of the farm bill conference committee, agrees with Vilsack's assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's applying pressure to me,\" he notes.\"That's the whole advantage of having permanent law that's as bad as it is: To try to get folks to create the new law that we need for the next five years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now if all this talk about a dairy cliff \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/05/166513348/milk-producers-peer-over-the-dairy-cliff\">sounds familiar\u003c/a>, that's because it is: Last year, lawmakers narrowly avoided triggering those 1949 price supports by tucking a \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323320404578215652575653978\">temporary extension\u003c/a> of the 2008 farm bill into last-minute legislation that avoided the fiscal cliff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, efforts to pass a new five-year farm bill have fallen into some of the same philosophical fights about the role of government that have gummed up the budget process on Capitol Hill — and just about everything else. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"House and Senate negotiators are meeting to reconcile their two different versions of a new farm bill. If they don't reach agreement, the nation faces going over \"the dairy cliff\" – a reversion to 1949 farm policy that would cause a big spike in milk prices.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1386175772,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":707},"headData":{"title":"Why $7-Per-Gallon Milk Looms Once Again | KQED","description":"House and Senate negotiators are meeting to reconcile their two different versions of a new farm bill. 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If the government fails to pass the farm bill, milk prices could spike sometime after the first of the year. Photo: George Frey/Landov\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-74755\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sticker shock in the dairy aisle? If the government fails to pass the farm bill, milk prices could spike sometime after the first of the year. Photo: George Frey/Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/04/248648797/why-7-per-gallon-milk-looms-once-again\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/12/20131204_me_13.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/122805042/tamara-keith\">Tamara Keith\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/04/248648797/why-7-per-gallon-milk-looms-once-again\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/4/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees are meeting Wednesday as they continue to try and work out the differences between their respective farm bills. If they fail, the country faces what's being called the \"dairy cliff\" — with milk prices potentially shooting up to about $7 a gallon sometime after the first of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's why: The nation's farm policy would be legally required to revert back to what's called permanent law. In the case of dairy, that would be the 1949 farm bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if House and Senate negotiators fail to reconcile their farm bills, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warns, \"I'm going to be put in a position where I have to invoke and implement permanent law. And I will do my job because that's what I swore an oath to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that back in 1949, the dairy industry was much smaller and less efficient than the one that exists today, so it received bigger price supports from the federal government. And if U.S. policy reverted to the old law, the government would be forced to go into the marketplace and buy milk, butter and cheese at about double the going rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilsack says this would distort the market: \"So you, as a [milk] producer, would have a choice of selling it to your normal purchaser at $18 or $19 a hundred weight or to USDA at $38 a hundred weight. What do you think producers will do?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course the producers would sell to the government. And that, says Jim Dunn, a professor of agricultural economics at Penn State University, \"would be terrible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every refrigerated warehouse in the United States would be full of cheese and butter,\" he says, \"and non-refrigerated milk warehouses would be full of powdered milk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for the rest of us, he says, there would be sticker shock in the dairy aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilsack says there would be supply issues, too, because the federal government would own the commodities, but there would be shortages in the grocery store. Which is how we'd quickly end up facing milk at $7 a gallon --\"If you can find it,\" notes Vilsack. \"And that is why it is ludicrous for Congress not to get a farm bill done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk would only be the first commodity affected. Without a farm bill, other commodity prices would spike as well as the year went on, affecting every family in America. Farm policy, often obscure for most consumers, would get personal fast. If this all sounds like illogical and terrible policy — well, that's the point, says Vilsack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a great lever to compel action,\" he says of the invocation of permanent law that hovers over every farm bill. \"In most cases, it's the reason why we've had fairly routine extensions of the farm bill for the past 50 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Conaway, a Republican from Texas and a member of the farm bill conference committee, agrees with Vilsack's assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's applying pressure to me,\" he notes.\"That's the whole advantage of having permanent law that's as bad as it is: To try to get folks to create the new law that we need for the next five years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now if all this talk about a dairy cliff \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/05/166513348/milk-producers-peer-over-the-dairy-cliff\">sounds familiar\u003c/a>, that's because it is: Last year, lawmakers narrowly avoided triggering those 1949 price supports by tucking a \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323320404578215652575653978\">temporary extension\u003c/a> of the 2008 farm bill into last-minute legislation that avoided the fiscal cliff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, efforts to pass a new five-year farm bill have fallen into some of the same philosophical fights about the role of government that have gummed up the budget process on Capitol Hill — and just about everything else. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/74754/why-7-per-gallon-milk-looms-once-again","authors":["byline_bayareabites_74754"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_10480","bayareabites_12745","bayareabites_135","bayareabites_1621","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_74760","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_63935":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_63935","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"63935","score":null,"sort":[1371832757000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"house-smacks-down-farm-bill-and-farm-lobby-too","title":"House Smacks Down Farm Bill, And Farm Lobby, Too","publishDate":1371832757,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63941\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/stophunger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/stophunger-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Gracie Shannon-Sanborn, 5, holds a sign as she joins her father Allen Sanborn (L) and members of Progressive Democrats of America at a rally in front of Rep. Henry Waxman's office on June 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif. The protestors asked the congressman to vote against a House farm bill, which was defeated Thursday. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-63941\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracie Shannon-Sanborn, 5, holds a sign as she joins her father Allen Sanborn (L) and members of Progressive Democrats of America at a rally in front of Rep. Henry Waxman's office on June 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif. The protestors asked the congressman to vote against a House farm bill, which was defeated Thursday. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/20/193926602/house-smacks-down-farm-bill-and-farm-lobby-too\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/20/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called farm bill came to the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday. And it crashed. The defeat \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/farm-bill-defeated-in-blow-to-boehner/\">shocked\u003c/a> many observers, but the vote wasn't even particularly close: 234-195. (You can see how your own representative voted \u003ca href=\"http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll286.xml\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate aftermath, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., looking shell-shocked, blamed partisan politics. Democrats voted overwhelmingly against the bill, in large part because it cut an estimated $2 billion each year from nutrition programs like SNAP, or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 62 Republicans also voted against the bill, which highlighted an emerging new bipartisan reality. Farmers, along with those members of Congress who represent farm districts, are losing their grip on U.S. farm policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm-friendly members of the House Agriculture Committee wrote the version of the bill that died today. It included generous benefits to farmers, mainly in the form of government-subsidized \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/30/187346726/Congress-Poised-To-Make-Crop-Insurance-Subsidies-More-Generous\">crop insurance\u003c/a>. It did not include a host of proposed reforms: limits on crop subsidies; proposals to buy more \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/04/176154775/a-political-war-brews-over-food-for-peace-aid-program\">international food aid\u003c/a> abroad, rather than ship it from U.S. ports; and nationwide standards on cages for egg-laying chickens, an idea supported by the country's biggest egg producers and also the Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, the full House might have let the Agriculture Committee have its way. Not this year. Libertarians and liberals alike ganged up to defeat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://royce.house.gov/\">Ed Royce,\u003c/a> R-Calif., a senior Republican who tried unsuccessfully to reform the food aid parts of the bill, voted against it today. So did budget hawk Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. The conservative \u003ca href=\"http://www.heritage.org/\">Heritage Foundation\u003c/a>, which wanted deeper cuts in both food stamps and farm subsidies, called the bill's defeat \"a victory for the taxpayer and the free market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill's supporters might not have anticipated that reaction. \"Lawmakers on the [Agriculture] Committee really underestimated the extent to which others were offended\" by the bill, says Scott Faber of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, one of the leading critics of agricultural subsidies. Lobbyists for farm interests \"increasingly seem to have a political tin ear,\" Faber says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what happens next. The Senate has passed its own version of the farm bill, but it will remain in limbo until the House finishes its own work. \u003ca href=\"http://lucas.house.gov/\">Frank Lucas\u003c/a>, R-OK., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, announced that \"we are assessing all our options.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://collinpeterson.house.gov/\">Collin Peterson\u003c/a>, D-Minn., the committee's senior Democratic member, wrote \"I have a hard time seeing where we go from here.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.stabenow.senate.gov/\">Debbie Stabenow\u003c/a>, D-Mich., who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, proposed that the House simply adopt the Senate's version of the bill, and bring it to the floor for a vote.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the past, the House might have let the Agriculture Committee have its way. Not this year. Democrats voted overwhelmingly against the bill, in large part because it cut an estimated $2 billion each year from nutrition programs like SNAP, or food stamps.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1371832757,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":534},"headData":{"title":"House Smacks Down Farm Bill, And Farm Lobby, Too | KQED","description":"In the past, the House might have let the Agriculture Committee have its way. Not this year. 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Henry Waxman's office on June 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif. The protestors asked the congressman to vote against a House farm bill, which was defeated Thursday. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-63941\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gracie Shannon-Sanborn, 5, holds a sign as she joins her father Allen Sanborn (L) and members of Progressive Democrats of America at a rally in front of Rep. Henry Waxman's office on June 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif. The protestors asked the congressman to vote against a House farm bill, which was defeated Thursday. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/20/193926602/house-smacks-down-farm-bill-and-farm-lobby-too\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/20/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called farm bill came to the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday. And it crashed. The defeat \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/farm-bill-defeated-in-blow-to-boehner/\">shocked\u003c/a> many observers, but the vote wasn't even particularly close: 234-195. (You can see how your own representative voted \u003ca href=\"http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll286.xml\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate aftermath, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., looking shell-shocked, blamed partisan politics. Democrats voted overwhelmingly against the bill, in large part because it cut an estimated $2 billion each year from nutrition programs like SNAP, or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 62 Republicans also voted against the bill, which highlighted an emerging new bipartisan reality. Farmers, along with those members of Congress who represent farm districts, are losing their grip on U.S. farm policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm-friendly members of the House Agriculture Committee wrote the version of the bill that died today. It included generous benefits to farmers, mainly in the form of government-subsidized \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/30/187346726/Congress-Poised-To-Make-Crop-Insurance-Subsidies-More-Generous\">crop insurance\u003c/a>. It did not include a host of proposed reforms: limits on crop subsidies; proposals to buy more \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/04/176154775/a-political-war-brews-over-food-for-peace-aid-program\">international food aid\u003c/a> abroad, rather than ship it from U.S. ports; and nationwide standards on cages for egg-laying chickens, an idea supported by the country's biggest egg producers and also the Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, the full House might have let the Agriculture Committee have its way. Not this year. Libertarians and liberals alike ganged up to defeat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://royce.house.gov/\">Ed Royce,\u003c/a> R-Calif., a senior Republican who tried unsuccessfully to reform the food aid parts of the bill, voted against it today. So did budget hawk Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. The conservative \u003ca href=\"http://www.heritage.org/\">Heritage Foundation\u003c/a>, which wanted deeper cuts in both food stamps and farm subsidies, called the bill's defeat \"a victory for the taxpayer and the free market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill's supporters might not have anticipated that reaction. \"Lawmakers on the [Agriculture] Committee really underestimated the extent to which others were offended\" by the bill, says Scott Faber of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, one of the leading critics of agricultural subsidies. Lobbyists for farm interests \"increasingly seem to have a political tin ear,\" Faber says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what happens next. The Senate has passed its own version of the farm bill, but it will remain in limbo until the House finishes its own work. \u003ca href=\"http://lucas.house.gov/\">Frank Lucas\u003c/a>, R-OK., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, announced that \"we are assessing all our options.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://collinpeterson.house.gov/\">Collin Peterson\u003c/a>, D-Minn., the committee's senior Democratic member, wrote \"I have a hard time seeing where we go from here.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.stabenow.senate.gov/\">Debbie Stabenow\u003c/a>, D-Mich., who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, proposed that the House simply adopt the Senate's version of the bill, and bring it to the floor for a vote.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/63935/house-smacks-down-farm-bill-and-farm-lobby-too","authors":["byline_bayareabites_63935"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_11722","bayareabites_11270","bayareabites_135","bayareabites_11876","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_63936","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_63648":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_63648","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"63648","score":null,"sort":[1371594767000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"obama-would-veto-houses-farm-bill-white-house-says","title":"Obama Would Veto House's Farm Bill, White House Says","publishDate":1371594767,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr1947ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr1947ih.pdf\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/farmbill.jpg\" alt=\"farm bill\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63650\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/14562108/bill-chappell\">Bill Chappell\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/17/192834899/obama-would-veto-houses-farm-bill-white-house-says\">The Two-Way\u003c/a>, at NPR (6/17/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama will be advised to veto a multi-year farm bill slated to be discussed in the House this week, the White House says. The administration issued a statement on the legislation Monday afternoon, criticizing it for cutting food programs for the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr1947ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr1947ih.pdf\">more than 575 pages\u003c/a>, the bipartisan bill was introduced by Reps. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and Collin Peterson, D-Minn., the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://agriculture.house.gov/press-release/lucas-peterson-release-house-farm-bill-saves-nearly-40-billion\">When it was released\u003c/a> in early May, Rep. Lucas called the bill, officially titled the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, \"a responsible and balanced bill that addresses Americans' concerns about federal spending and reforms farm and nutrition policy to improve efficiency and accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration doesn't agree, saying today that the \"bill makes unacceptable deep cuts in SNAP, which could increase hunger among millions of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet, including families with children and senior citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House added that if the bill's sponsors want to make budget cuts, they ought to reduce federal subsidies, such as crop insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rather than reducing crop insurance subsidies by $11.7 billion over 10 years, as proposed in the President's Budget,\" the statement reads, \"H.R. 1947 would increase reference prices for farmers by roughly 45 percent and increase already generous crop insurance subsidies at a cost of nearly $9 billion over 10 years to the Nation's taxpayers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://agriculture.house.gov/sites/republicans.agriculture.house.gov/files/farm%20bill/2013_FARRMSummary_0.pdf\">summary of the bill\u003c/a> released by the House Agriculture Committee says the legislation will \"eliminate or consolidate over 100 programs,\" in addition to enacting the \"first reforms to SNAP since the welfare reforms of 1996, saving more than $20 billion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those changes, Republicans say, are two moves to keep states from adding more people to the food program than the law was meant to allow. Earlier today, Lucas \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepFrankLucas/status/346738584189038592/photo/1\">tweeted a photo\u003c/a> of a chart listing those reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the farm bill was released, Rep. Peterson said he believes \"there are more responsible ways to reform nutrition programs,\" but he added that \"the bottom line is that this is the first step in the process and it is past time to pass a five-year farm bill.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Obama administration says the bill \"makes unacceptable deep cuts\" to federal food aid programs and extends, rather than cuts, crop insurance payments to farmers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1371594767,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":390},"headData":{"title":"Obama Would Veto House's Farm Bill, White House Says | KQED","description":"The Obama administration says the bill "makes unacceptable deep cuts" to federal food aid programs and extends, rather than cuts, crop insurance payments to farmers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Obama Would Veto House's Farm Bill, White House Says","datePublished":"2013-06-18T22:32:47.000Z","dateModified":"2013-06-18T22:32:47.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"63648 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=63648","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/06/18/obama-would-veto-houses-farm-bill-white-house-says/","disqusTitle":"Obama Would Veto House's Farm Bill, White House Says","nprByline":"Bill Chappell","nprStoryId":"192834899","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=192834899&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/17/192834899/obama-would-veto-houses-farm-bill-white-house-says?ft=3&f=192834899","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:21:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:21:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:21:13 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/63648/obama-would-veto-houses-farm-bill-white-house-says","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr1947ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr1947ih.pdf\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/farmbill.jpg\" alt=\"farm bill\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63650\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/14562108/bill-chappell\">Bill Chappell\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/17/192834899/obama-would-veto-houses-farm-bill-white-house-says\">The Two-Way\u003c/a>, at NPR (6/17/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama will be advised to veto a multi-year farm bill slated to be discussed in the House this week, the White House says. The administration issued a statement on the legislation Monday afternoon, criticizing it for cutting food programs for the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr1947ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr1947ih.pdf\">more than 575 pages\u003c/a>, the bipartisan bill was introduced by Reps. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and Collin Peterson, D-Minn., the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://agriculture.house.gov/press-release/lucas-peterson-release-house-farm-bill-saves-nearly-40-billion\">When it was released\u003c/a> in early May, Rep. Lucas called the bill, officially titled the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, \"a responsible and balanced bill that addresses Americans' concerns about federal spending and reforms farm and nutrition policy to improve efficiency and accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration doesn't agree, saying today that the \"bill makes unacceptable deep cuts in SNAP, which could increase hunger among millions of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet, including families with children and senior citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House added that if the bill's sponsors want to make budget cuts, they ought to reduce federal subsidies, such as crop insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rather than reducing crop insurance subsidies by $11.7 billion over 10 years, as proposed in the President's Budget,\" the statement reads, \"H.R. 1947 would increase reference prices for farmers by roughly 45 percent and increase already generous crop insurance subsidies at a cost of nearly $9 billion over 10 years to the Nation's taxpayers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://agriculture.house.gov/sites/republicans.agriculture.house.gov/files/farm%20bill/2013_FARRMSummary_0.pdf\">summary of the bill\u003c/a> released by the House Agriculture Committee says the legislation will \"eliminate or consolidate over 100 programs,\" in addition to enacting the \"first reforms to SNAP since the welfare reforms of 1996, saving more than $20 billion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those changes, Republicans say, are two moves to keep states from adding more people to the food program than the law was meant to allow. Earlier today, Lucas \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepFrankLucas/status/346738584189038592/photo/1\">tweeted a photo\u003c/a> of a chart listing those reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the farm bill was released, Rep. Peterson said he believes \"there are more responsible ways to reform nutrition programs,\" but he added that \"the bottom line is that this is the first step in the process and it is past time to pass a five-year farm bill.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/63648/obama-would-veto-houses-farm-bill-white-house-says","authors":["byline_bayareabites_63648"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_3032","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_11722","bayareabites_135","bayareabites_11725","bayareabites_10011","bayareabites_648","bayareabites_11856","bayareabites_11855","bayareabites_11838","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_63650","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_63282":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_63282","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"63282","score":null,"sort":[1370969581000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies","title":"How The Senate Farm Bill Would Change Subsidies","publishDate":1370969581,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/farmer.jpg\" alt=\"Third-generation Oklahoma farmer Scott Neufeld says crop insurance is important to his family's business. Photo: Tamara Keith/NPR\" width=\"624\" height=\"391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63289\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Third-generation Oklahoma farmer Scott Neufeld says crop insurance is important to his family's business.\u003cbr>Photo: Tamara Keith/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/06/11/189546445/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/06/20130611_me_02.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/122805042/tamara-keith\">Tamara Keith\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/06/11/189546445/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies\">NPR\u003c/a> (6/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate voted Monday to approve its version of the farm bill, a massive spending measure that covers everything from food stamps to crop insurance and sets the nation's farm policy for the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece of that policy is an expanded crop insurance program, designed to protect farmers from losses, that some say amounts to a highly subsidized gift to agribusiness. That debate is set to continue as the House plans to take up its version of the bill this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For farmer Scott Neufeld, crop insurance is an integral part of his family's business. When the wind whips through his farm in northwestern Oklahoma, the wheat sways and looks like a roiling ocean — those famous amber waves of grain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's normal,\" says Neufeld, looking toward a tree blowing in the wind. \"They're predicting storms today, so that wind you hear is pumping up the moisture for the storms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\u003ciframe class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https://vine.co/v/bY53YPE2Xgn/embed/simple\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript async src=\"//platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a reminder of just what a precarious business farming can be. Although his crop looks good now, a violent hailstorm could wipe him out just before harvest. Every year there's the risk of a drought or even just a badly timed dry spell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're relying upon what falls from the sky,\" Neufeld says. \"You have no spigot to go turn on when it gets hot or when the rains quit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld is a third-generation farmer with about 3,500 acres of wheat, canola, alfalfa hay and some cattle. He's able to manage the risk inherent in his business in part because of crop insurance, which is highly subsidized by the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld says the last time he had to make a claim was in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very, very dry — a very dry spring,\" he remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld harvested far less wheat than expected, and his crop insurance made up part of the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It by no means made up the complete income on the cash-flow projection that I had made,\" Neufeld says. \"But it was, you know, maybe 70 percent to be able to afford to keep going, pay the bills and and tighten our belts and go again for the next year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld buys a revenue protection policy. Most farmers do. It insures not just against yield loss from storms or drought but also from revenue loss, if commodity prices drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's what I call the Cadillac of insurance products,\" says Bruce Babcock, a professor of economics at Iowa State University, who helped invent revenue coverage in the mid-1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, although Babcock supports the idea of crop insurance, he's a critic of how much taxpayer money goes into it. For every dollar of insurance premium, on average, farmers pay 38 cents. Taxpayers kick in 62 cents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate farm bill expands that insurance program and is projected to cost $89 billion over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crop insurance is not an insurance program. It's a social program,\" Babcock says. \"It's a regular farm commodity support subsidy program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, because of how American agriculture works, it's a social program that helps the biggest agribusinesses the most. The legislation does away with direct payments — a program that pays farmers whether they plant a crop or not — making insurance subsidies the central way the government will support the nation's farmers in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who heads the Senate Agriculture Committee, says crop insurance \"is insurance — and the farmer gets a bill, not a check.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill that farmers get covers about a third of the actual cost, but Stabenow says the government subsidy is necessary. \"It's got to be a bill that they can afford to be able to provide the coverage,\" she said recently on the Senate floor. \"And then there is no payout unless you have a loss.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation passed Monday by the Senate also ties those insurance subsidies to conservation requirements, to protect farmland and streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many, including Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., say the crop insurance program is too generous. He offered a bipartisan amendment that would reduce subsidies for the wealthiest farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The No. 1 farmer in the country gets $1.9 million worth of subsidies a year,\" Coburn said during the floor debate. \"All we're going to do is cut his subsidy to $1.6 million.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amendment passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Neufeld, the Oklahoma farmer, would be happy to pay his premiums year after year and never use his crop insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[But if] we get into a year where there's a major drought, our commodity prices fall out of bed for nothing under our control, then I think we need to have that safety net afforded to us by our government to keep us in business,\" Neufeld says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House version of the farm bill also replaces direct payments with expanded crop insurance. The House is scheduled to take up the measure for what is promising to be vigorous debate later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Senate passed legislation Monday that would do away with direct payments to farmers and instead create an expanded crop insurance program. It's designed to protect farmers from losses, but some say it amounts to a highly subsidized gift to agribusiness.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1370969968,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://vine.co/v/bY53YPE2Xgn/embed/simple"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":899},"headData":{"title":"How The Senate Farm Bill Would Change Subsidies | KQED","description":"The Senate passed legislation Monday that would do away with direct payments to farmers and instead create an expanded crop insurance program. It's designed to protect farmers from losses, but some say it amounts to a highly subsidized gift to agribusiness.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How The Senate Farm Bill Would Change Subsidies","datePublished":"2013-06-11T16:53:01.000Z","dateModified":"2013-06-11T16:59:28.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"63282 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=63282","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/06/11/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies/","disqusTitle":"How The Senate Farm Bill Would Change Subsidies","nprByline":"Tamara Keith","nprStoryId":"189546445","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=189546445&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/2013/06/11/189546445/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies?ft=3&f=189546445","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:23:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:32:12 -0400","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/06/20130611_me_02.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1014&ft=3&f=189546445","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1190601053-5b301a.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1014&ft=3&f=189546445","path":"/bayareabites/63282/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/06/20130611_me_02.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1014&ft=3&f=189546445","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/farmer.jpg\" alt=\"Third-generation Oklahoma farmer Scott Neufeld says crop insurance is important to his family's business. Photo: Tamara Keith/NPR\" width=\"624\" height=\"391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63289\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Third-generation Oklahoma farmer Scott Neufeld says crop insurance is important to his family's business.\u003cbr>Photo: Tamara Keith/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/06/11/189546445/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/06/20130611_me_02.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/122805042/tamara-keith\">Tamara Keith\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/06/11/189546445/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies\">NPR\u003c/a> (6/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate voted Monday to approve its version of the farm bill, a massive spending measure that covers everything from food stamps to crop insurance and sets the nation's farm policy for the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece of that policy is an expanded crop insurance program, designed to protect farmers from losses, that some say amounts to a highly subsidized gift to agribusiness. That debate is set to continue as the House plans to take up its version of the bill this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For farmer Scott Neufeld, crop insurance is an integral part of his family's business. When the wind whips through his farm in northwestern Oklahoma, the wheat sways and looks like a roiling ocean — those famous amber waves of grain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's normal,\" says Neufeld, looking toward a tree blowing in the wind. \"They're predicting storms today, so that wind you hear is pumping up the moisture for the storms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\u003ciframe class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https://vine.co/v/bY53YPE2Xgn/embed/simple\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript async src=\"//platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a reminder of just what a precarious business farming can be. Although his crop looks good now, a violent hailstorm could wipe him out just before harvest. Every year there's the risk of a drought or even just a badly timed dry spell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're relying upon what falls from the sky,\" Neufeld says. \"You have no spigot to go turn on when it gets hot or when the rains quit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld is a third-generation farmer with about 3,500 acres of wheat, canola, alfalfa hay and some cattle. He's able to manage the risk inherent in his business in part because of crop insurance, which is highly subsidized by the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld says the last time he had to make a claim was in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very, very dry — a very dry spring,\" he remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld harvested far less wheat than expected, and his crop insurance made up part of the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It by no means made up the complete income on the cash-flow projection that I had made,\" Neufeld says. \"But it was, you know, maybe 70 percent to be able to afford to keep going, pay the bills and and tighten our belts and go again for the next year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld buys a revenue protection policy. Most farmers do. It insures not just against yield loss from storms or drought but also from revenue loss, if commodity prices drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's what I call the Cadillac of insurance products,\" says Bruce Babcock, a professor of economics at Iowa State University, who helped invent revenue coverage in the mid-1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, although Babcock supports the idea of crop insurance, he's a critic of how much taxpayer money goes into it. For every dollar of insurance premium, on average, farmers pay 38 cents. Taxpayers kick in 62 cents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate farm bill expands that insurance program and is projected to cost $89 billion over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crop insurance is not an insurance program. It's a social program,\" Babcock says. \"It's a regular farm commodity support subsidy program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, because of how American agriculture works, it's a social program that helps the biggest agribusinesses the most. The legislation does away with direct payments — a program that pays farmers whether they plant a crop or not — making insurance subsidies the central way the government will support the nation's farmers in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who heads the Senate Agriculture Committee, says crop insurance \"is insurance — and the farmer gets a bill, not a check.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill that farmers get covers about a third of the actual cost, but Stabenow says the government subsidy is necessary. \"It's got to be a bill that they can afford to be able to provide the coverage,\" she said recently on the Senate floor. \"And then there is no payout unless you have a loss.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation passed Monday by the Senate also ties those insurance subsidies to conservation requirements, to protect farmland and streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many, including Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., say the crop insurance program is too generous. He offered a bipartisan amendment that would reduce subsidies for the wealthiest farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The No. 1 farmer in the country gets $1.9 million worth of subsidies a year,\" Coburn said during the floor debate. \"All we're going to do is cut his subsidy to $1.6 million.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amendment passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Neufeld, the Oklahoma farmer, would be happy to pay his premiums year after year and never use his crop insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[But if] we get into a year where there's a major drought, our commodity prices fall out of bed for nothing under our control, then I think we need to have that safety net afforded to us by our government to keep us in business,\" Neufeld says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House version of the farm bill also replaces direct payments with expanded crop insurance. The House is scheduled to take up the measure for what is promising to be vigorous debate later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/63282/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies","authors":["byline_bayareabites_63282"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_135","bayareabites_11807","bayareabites_10011","bayareabites_11802"],"featImg":"bayareabites_63289","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_63233":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_63233","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"63233","score":null,"sort":[1370901384000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-senate-farm-bill-catfish-imports","title":"The Farm Bill: A Senate Catfight Over Catfish","publishDate":1370901384,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/catfish.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/catfish.jpg\" alt=\"These funny mustachioed fish are at the center of a farm bill fight in the House and Senate. Photo: Sasha Radosavljevic/iStockphoto.com\" width=\"624\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These funny mustachioed fish are at the center of a farm bill fight in the House and Senate.\u003cbr>Photo: Sasha Radosavljevic/iStockphoto.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/10/190328271/a-senate-catfight-over-catfish\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/10/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm bill is expected to pass in the Senate on Monday night. And to the dismay of some, it likely won't include an amendment that would have eliminated a controversial program to keep a closer eye on a food product you probably weren't even worried about: catfish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/the-fishy-deal-on-catfish-92415.html\">op-ed\u003c/a> published Friday in \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., made the case for why $15 million a year to fund an \"absurd\" U.S. Department of Agriculture catfish office is a waste of taxpayer money. He and Jean Shaheen, D-N.H., sponsored the amendment in the Senate to kill the program. According to McCain and Shaheen, additional inspectors for domestic and imported catfish are nothing more than a gift to Southern catfish farmers seeking to burden their Asian competitors with extra compliance costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the backstory: U.S. catfish farmers have been struggling for a while. Total acreage of catfish ponds has dropped from a high of 196,760 acres of water in 2002 to 83,020 acres in January 2013. As Kristofer Husted \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/03/168203740/drought-puts-the-squeeze-on-already-struggling-fish-farms\">reported\u003c/a> for us in January, lack of water, high temperatures and feed prices are part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more threatening, as far as the people still in business are concerned, are the foreign companies who now dominate 78 percent of the U.S. market for frozen catfish and similar species. How did these companies, mostly from Vietnam and China, manage that? They've found ways to raise catfish more cheaply and efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, congressmen from Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi, the top three catfish-producing states, have been looking for ways to bolster the domestic industry by limiting imports. And eventually, critics say, they figured more inspectors might do the trick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seafood inspection is the job of the Food and Drug Administration, and that's one reason both McCain and the Government Accountability Office are against having another agency duplicate the FDA's efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless catfish have suddenly sprouted legs, USDA should stick to meat, poultry and egg inspections,\" McCain wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly $20 million has already been spent on the USDA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fsis.usda.gov/about/OCIP/index.asp\">Office of Catfish Inspection\u003c/a> since its creation in 2008. Its supporters say the FDA is woefully underfunded and ill-equipped to monitor imported seafood — especially when it comes to testing for residues of drugs used by foreign producers — and needs USDA's help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those supporters include, unsurprisingly, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.catfishfarmersofamerica.com/\">Catfish Farmers of America\u003c/a>, a trade group that has argued that foreign catfish are riskier for consumers than what we grow here. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.safecatfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Catfish_Risk-_Report.pdf\">report\u003c/a> the group commissioned in 2010 found that salmonella, the pathogen most often associated with catfish, was found more frequently on imported catfish than on domestic catfish. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA has indeed been regularly lambasted for not being able to keep up with testing of all imported seafood, not just catfish. The U.S. imports 90 percent of its seafood, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/05/16/136364253/somethings-fishy-with-fdas-oversight-of-imported-seafood\">according to\u003c/a> the Government Accountability Office, in 2009, the FDA performed drug residue testing on only 0.1 percent of the seafood coming into the country. (In its tests, the FDA is \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnforcement/ComplianceEnforcement/UCM113433.pdf\">looking\u003c/a> for residue showing both use of unapproved drugs and misuse of approved drugs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers Union is also in favor of USDA getting involved with catfish inspection. In \u003ca href=\"http://consumersunion.org/news/cu-comments-regarding-the-fsis-proposal-to-require-inspection-of-catfish/\">comments\u003c/a> prepared for Congress back in 2011, CU senior scientist Michael Hansen wrote, \"We believe that [USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service] is better suited than the FDA to ensure the safety of domestic and imported catfish, as FSIS does a more comprehensive review of food safety systems.\" In particular, Hansen wrote, his group was worried about foreign catfish producers' use of drugs unapproved for use in aquaculture in the U.S., which could affect consumers' health or contribute to antibiotic resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the GAO \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/590777.pdf\">has agreed\u003c/a> with Shaheen and McCain that the USDA catfish program won't add much to what the FDA is already doing. 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They've found ways to raise catfish more cheaply and efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, congressmen from Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi, the top three catfish-producing states, have been looking for ways to bolster the domestic industry by limiting imports. And eventually, critics say, they figured more inspectors might do the trick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seafood inspection is the job of the Food and Drug Administration, and that's one reason both McCain and the Government Accountability Office are against having another agency duplicate the FDA's efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unless catfish have suddenly sprouted legs, USDA should stick to meat, poultry and egg inspections,\" McCain wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly $20 million has already been spent on the USDA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fsis.usda.gov/about/OCIP/index.asp\">Office of Catfish Inspection\u003c/a> since its creation in 2008. Its supporters say the FDA is woefully underfunded and ill-equipped to monitor imported seafood — especially when it comes to testing for residues of drugs used by foreign producers — and needs USDA's help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those supporters include, unsurprisingly, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.catfishfarmersofamerica.com/\">Catfish Farmers of America\u003c/a>, a trade group that has argued that foreign catfish are riskier for consumers than what we grow here. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.safecatfish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Catfish_Risk-_Report.pdf\">report\u003c/a> the group commissioned in 2010 found that salmonella, the pathogen most often associated with catfish, was found more frequently on imported catfish than on domestic catfish. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA has indeed been regularly lambasted for not being able to keep up with testing of all imported seafood, not just catfish. The U.S. imports 90 percent of its seafood, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/05/16/136364253/somethings-fishy-with-fdas-oversight-of-imported-seafood\">according to\u003c/a> the Government Accountability Office, in 2009, the FDA performed drug residue testing on only 0.1 percent of the seafood coming into the country. (In its tests, the FDA is \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnforcement/ComplianceEnforcement/UCM113433.pdf\">looking\u003c/a> for residue showing both use of unapproved drugs and misuse of approved drugs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers Union is also in favor of USDA getting involved with catfish inspection. In \u003ca href=\"http://consumersunion.org/news/cu-comments-regarding-the-fsis-proposal-to-require-inspection-of-catfish/\">comments\u003c/a> prepared for Congress back in 2011, CU senior scientist Michael Hansen wrote, \"We believe that [USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service] is better suited than the FDA to ensure the safety of domestic and imported catfish, as FSIS does a more comprehensive review of food safety systems.\" In particular, Hansen wrote, his group was worried about foreign catfish producers' use of drugs unapproved for use in aquaculture in the U.S., which could affect consumers' health or contribute to antibiotic resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the GAO \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/600/590777.pdf\">has agreed\u003c/a> with Shaheen and McCain that the USDA catfish program won't add much to what the FDA is already doing. 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