Ag Policy News

• Immigration Reform: Landscape of California Agriculture at Stake
  
  05/22/2013
  The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed its version of Immigration Reform. American Farm Bureau told AgDay while several amendments were passed; the 844-page bill remains largely untouched.
• Top Ten Political Issues Facing Agriculture
  
  05/22/2013
  Former deputy ag secretary Kathleen Merrigan highlights the top non-farm-bill issues that are currently impacting agriculture.
• Immigration Reform: California Farmers Say Labor Is at Stake
  
  05/21/2013
  While some in Washington are calling for more border security, farmers in California say such a measure would force their acres out of production.
• Dickrell: Is the Dairy Debate Asking The Wrong Question?
  
  05/20/2013
  Here's what the real focus should be, say two young and very smart dairy economists.
• Immigration Encounters Business-Labor Rift that Undid 2007 Bill
  
  05/20/2013
  Movement in both the House and Senate on revising U.S. immigration law belies a long-running rift between business and labor that could derail the bill.
• Bipartisan U.S. House Group Produces Tentative Immigration Plan
  
  05/17/2013
  With ‘an agreement in principle,’ House lawmakers will begin drafting legislation to be introduced in early June. But hurdles remain.
• Food-Stamp Revival Spurned as House Panel Approves Farm Bill
  
  05/16/2013
  The House Agriculture Committee approved a version of the farm bill that would cost $940 billion.
• Goodlatte, Scott Will Fight On
  
  05/15/2013
  'Supply management is antithetical to the future growth of the dairy industry.' --Cong. Goodlatte and Scott

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