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Reposted from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Washington, DC \u2013<\/em>\u00a0Yesterday Chairman Frank Lucas and Ranking Member Collin Peterson released their draft farm bill ahead of the House Agriculture Committee\u2019s farm bill markup next week.\u00a0 The bill generates $35 billion in savings by cutting over $16 billion from nutrition programs and more than $6 billion from conservation programs, while increasing crop insurance subsidies and decreasing commodity subsidies for a net savings of over $14 billion.<\/p>\n

\u201cNSAC is pleased that the farm bill process has started in the House and with some of the specific provisions in the bill, but we are overall very disappointed with the draft starting point,\u201d said Ferd Hoefner, NSAC Policy Director.\u00a0 \u201cThis is an anti-reform bill \u2014 bad for family farmers, rural communities, and the environment.\u00a0 It will need to be reworked very substantially to gain the support of our coalition of farm and rural groups as the process moves forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the draft bill, federal crop insurance subsidies would balloon to an unprecedented average of $10 billion per year \u2014 with no subsidy caps, no targeting, no income limits, and not even minimal conservation requirements.\u00a0 \u201cAt a time when our nation faces record deficits, the draft bill is fiscally irresponsible, providing unlimited premium subsidies to the nation\u2019s largest farms and wealthiest landowners.\u201d said Hoefner.<\/p>\n

The draft bill would increase the commodity payment limit by 250 percent above the already generous Senate-passed levels, and unlike the Senate-passed bill, would leave wide-open the current loopholes that allow mega-farms and absentee landowners to collect farm payments.\u00a0 \u201cSubsidy loopholes that enable waste, fraud, and abuse in commodity programs are alive and well in this bill,\u201d noted Hoefner.<\/p>\n

The draft bill significantly limits the tools that farmers have at their disposal to deal with soil and water improvements in the face of increasingly unpredictable weather and production conditions.\u00a0 \u201cA modern, fiscally responsible farm safety net would not just pay farmers for a loss but help them to prevent it in the future,\u201d said Hoefner.\u00a0 \u201cBy cutting acreage for the Conservation Stewardship Program by a whopping 30 percent, the draft House bill is telling farmers to \u2018go it alone\u2019 if they want to be proactive about smart land management.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the draft bill includes a Sodsaver provision to protect native grasslands, the provision is regional \u2014 not national \u2014 in scope.\u00a0 \u201cThe Committee has ignored the call by sportsmen, conservationists, and farmers for a national Sodsaver provision,\u201d said Hoefner.\u00a0 \u201cThe bill includes a piecemeal Sodsaver provision that would cause administrative headaches and farmer anger over arbitrary lines and inequities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The draft bill cuts in half the funding for USDA\u2019s keystone programs for beginning farmers and minority farmers, and cuts funding for rural economic development by 88 percent when compared to the average funding levels of the past three farm bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreating jobs in rural America and ensuring the success of the next generation of farmers are national priorities for American agriculture,\u201d said Hoefner, \u201cbut the draft House bill punts on funding for these priorities, leaving rural communities and beginning farmers in the lurch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the many programs the draft bill repeals is a program that assists organic farmers with the costs of complying with regulations.\u00a0 \u201cOrganic is one of the fastest growing sectors of agriculture,\u201d noted Hoefner.\u00a0 \u201cA repeal of organic certification cost share is an attack on this growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Committee is scheduled to markup the draft bill on July 11.\u00a0 \u201cThe Committee should address these major deficiencies when it meets to markup a bill next week,\u201d said Hoefner.\u00a0 \u201cTo the extent that does not happen, we are confident that these will be topics of major amendments when and if the bill reaches the House floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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