Farmers await final version of revolutionary Farm Bill
House and Senate members in Washington, D.C., may be taking their time producing a new farm bill, but Mother Nature doesn’t play politics.
So countless farmers in Northern Colorado and elsewhere are nearing — or already have entered — their spring planting season without knowing what will happen with crop subsidies, land conservation and wetlands programs, and other farm-related assistance programs.
Farm bills — actually, amendments to the 1949 Agriculture Adjustment Act — are revived about every five years. The latest promises to offer the most sweeping changes since the Act’s inception. The Senate passed its version of the Farm…
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