Republicans tackling a Farm Bill this year will first have to explain – and more importantly defend – the changes they made to ag spending in last year's so-called big beautiful bill.
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Federal cuts could shutter farm to food bank program

The Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, known in California as Farms Together, pays farmers fair market prices to supply ...
The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 renews and enhances crop insurance and price support, disaster assistance, ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act extended commodity programs and crop insurance, but left other farm bill titles for 2026 ...
House and Senate Ag Committee leaders are considering increasing statutory reference prices for major farm program crops as part of a budget reconciliation measure. This would apply to both Price Loss ...
April 15 is the deadline to sign-up for the 2025 farm program at local USDA Farm Service Agency offices throughout the United States. Eligible producers are able to choose between the price-only ...
When Jon Esformes was in his 20s, farmworkers staged protests outside one of his family’s tomato farms, in California’s Central Valley, calling out the fact they were paid less than 50 cents for each ...
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) announced that its new Farm Transfer Planning Assistance program (Farm-Pass) helped address the loss of ...
Judith Puncochar prunes a tree on her farm outside of Saint Paul, Nebraska. Most of Puncochar's farm is enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, a federal land conservation initiative that she ...
Farm management analyst Kent Thiesse answers some of the farm program and crop insurance questions that have resulted from the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.