20100510 FarmBill 2012 information

In the United States, the farm bill is the primary agricultural and food policy tool of the federal government. The comprehensive omnibus bill is passed every 5 years or so by the United States Congress and deals with both agriculture and all other affairs under the purview of the United States Department of Agriculture.

This is a great resource to learn more about what the USDA does and how resources are organized to meet the USDA's missions.

This is the main USDA resource page to the 2008 Farm Bill

Information on 2012 Farm Bill will be filtered through the House Committee on Agriculture.

As the House Agriculture Committee prepares to consider the next Farm Bill, we want to hear from you. We appreciate you for taking the time to visit the Committee's website and share your thoughts about the future of farm policy. In order for your comments to be considered part of the Committee's Farm Bill field hearing record, please submit your comments in the form below by July 28th, 2010. We look forward to hearing your thoughts!

With an election year coming up the discussion on where farm bill dollars are going (and where they might go) is going to certainly be brought up. What do dollars go to? The Environmental Working Group Farm Subsidy Database http://farm.ewg.org/ has information to help. You may be opposed to the EWG but the database does work to help you learn more about where the dollars end up.