Farms, food aid, and rural policy
The Farm Bill and everything in it: crop supports and insurance, SNAP food assistance, school meals, food safety, rural development, and the trade and labor policies that reach the farm. Rural and urban interests are bundled in one law on purpose.
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Issue
Food & Agriculture
Farms, food aid, and rural policy
Why it connects to…
Farms are both affected by drought and heat and a source of emissions and conservation funding.
A large share of farm labor is immigrant labor, making visa policy a farm-economy question.
Crop supports, food assistance and trade policy are economic policy for rural America.
SNAP and school-meal nutrition standards are public-health policy inside the Farm Bill.
Farms are both affected by drought and heat and a source of emissions and conservation funding.
Crop supports, food assistance and trade policy are economic policy for rural America.
SNAP and school-meal nutrition standards are public-health policy inside the Farm Bill.
A large share of farm labor is immigrant labor, making visa policy a farm-economy question.