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Agricultural Policy: Problems and Solutions | |
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the Farm Team
Farmland occupies roughly half of the land in the contiguous United States, so how farmers use their land is critical to the country's environment, public health, and rural communities. Today's federal farm programs, which spent $32 billion last year alone, work against environmental goals and leave the vast majority of farmers out in the cold. In collaboration with a growing number of environmental, public health,
and family farmer organizations and individual activists, Environmental
Defense is working to reform the next Farm Bill to help farmers, ranchers,
and forest landowners help the environment. Read the
Losing More Ground: A State-by-State Analysis of America's Growing Conservation Backlog Bush Administration Report on Farm Policy Bringing Dead Zones Back to Life
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