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Kinda fell under the radar with all the other political garbage coming out of Washington DC. The country is broke and look at the DOUBLE DIGIT increases in ALL the Farm Bill program outlays.
$3.58 Billion in food goes overseas (+29% increase)
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0709/070809cdam2.htm[url]http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0709/070809cdam2.htm[/URL]
http://www.agri-pulse.com/uploaded/20090708H1.pdf[url]http://www.agri-pulse.com/uploaded/20090708H1.pdf[/URL]
Some notes:
The bill includes:
$1.89 Billion for International Food Aid a $564 Million increase (+30% Increase)
$1.69 Billion is for the Food for Peace Title II program, $464.1 million increase (+27.5% Increase)
$200 Million is for the McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program, $100 million increase (+100% increase)
$100.8 Billion for mandatory farm subsidy and nutrition programs, $13 billion increase (+15% increase)
$23.7 Billion for discretionary programs, $2.4 Billion increase (+10%)
Some of the new spending and grants:
• $128 million for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to help farmers,
ranchers and rural small businesses build their own clean energy projects,
including biomass, manure digesters, wind and solar power, and energy
efficiency.
• $50.73 million for the Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D)
Program.
• $21.87 million for the Value-Added Market Development Program Grants
Program which provides grants to producers and producer organizations for the
purpose of finding new opportunities and higher values for agricultural products.
• $10.72 million for Rural Cooperative Development Grants.
• $2.8 million for Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA), a
national sustainable agriculture information service provided through a
public/private partnership between USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service
(RBS) and the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT).
• $1.25 million for the North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory - Biomass
Crop Production to develop value-added uses for byproducts (DDG and DDGS)
resulting from corn-based ethanol production.
• $1.213 million for the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at Iowa State University and the University of Missouri which uses comprehensive data and computer modeling systems to develop projections for the U.S. agricultural sector and international commodity markets.
• $1 million for the Food Safety Consortium to conduct research to improve the
safety of meat and poultry in the United States.
• $889,000 for the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), a multi-state,
interdisciplinary research consortium jointly sponsored by Iowa State University,
the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Nebraska, to continue
research and analysis on a range of rural issues important.
• $839,000 for Mississippi State University to develop a plant-based gasification
process to produce liquid fuel and $797,000 to continue the study of crop
genomics to improve agriculture production.
$3.58 Billion in food goes overseas (+29% increase)
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0709/070809cdam2.htm[url]http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0709/070809cdam2.htm[/URL]
http://www.agri-pulse.com/uploaded/20090708H1.pdf[url]http://www.agri-pulse.com/uploaded/20090708H1.pdf[/URL]
Some notes:
The bill includes:
$1.89 Billion for International Food Aid a $564 Million increase (+30% Increase)
$1.69 Billion is for the Food for Peace Title II program, $464.1 million increase (+27.5% Increase)
$200 Million is for the McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program, $100 million increase (+100% increase)
$100.8 Billion for mandatory farm subsidy and nutrition programs, $13 billion increase (+15% increase)
$23.7 Billion for discretionary programs, $2.4 Billion increase (+10%)
Some of the new spending and grants:
• $128 million for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to help farmers,
ranchers and rural small businesses build their own clean energy projects,
including biomass, manure digesters, wind and solar power, and energy
efficiency.
• $50.73 million for the Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D)
Program.
• $21.87 million for the Value-Added Market Development Program Grants
Program which provides grants to producers and producer organizations for the
purpose of finding new opportunities and higher values for agricultural products.
• $10.72 million for Rural Cooperative Development Grants.
• $2.8 million for Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA), a
national sustainable agriculture information service provided through a
public/private partnership between USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service
(RBS) and the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT).
• $1.25 million for the North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory - Biomass
Crop Production to develop value-added uses for byproducts (DDG and DDGS)
resulting from corn-based ethanol production.
• $1.213 million for the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at Iowa State University and the University of Missouri which uses comprehensive data and computer modeling systems to develop projections for the U.S. agricultural sector and international commodity markets.
• $1 million for the Food Safety Consortium to conduct research to improve the
safety of meat and poultry in the United States.
• $889,000 for the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), a multi-state,
interdisciplinary research consortium jointly sponsored by Iowa State University,
the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Nebraska, to continue
research and analysis on a range of rural issues important.
• $839,000 for Mississippi State University to develop a plant-based gasification
process to produce liquid fuel and $797,000 to continue the study of crop
genomics to improve agriculture production.
