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School’s out for the Farm Bill

by Brian

With the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 finally wrapping up, the Land Stewardship Project has developed a report card on where the legislation finally landed in terms of conservation, local food systems, sustainable agriculture and family farmers. Overall, we give it a C-. Not exactly honor roll material, but the initiatives that keep this bill from being a farm country flunker turn out to be pretty key. See for yourself by clicking here.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 2:11 pm by Brian and is filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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