Farm Bill Action Alert
Janice Quinlan | Published on 10/20/2023
In February 2023 LWV US joined nearly 650 other organizations in signing onto a letter to House and Senate agriculture committee leadership. This letter urged Congress to protect the historic additional $19.5 billion investment in climate-smart agriculture and conservation technical assistance that was part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Read the letter here.
Over the past few years, Congress has cut funding for conservation programs for which demand has long out-stripped supply; the one-time funding in the IRA helped to fill the gap. The IRA funds are to supplement conservation funding in the Farm Bill, not replace it!
Tell Congressional legislators in your state that our farmers and ranchers need to have climate-smart agriculture conservation programs and technical assistance for those conservation programs fully funded by the 2023 Farm Bill. Farmers rely on these Farm Bill conservation programs to help them make their farms more resilient and productive. But these programs can only help farmers if they are funded.
Act now and amplify the LWVUS message to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry!
For more background information including members of the legislative committees and sample letters from the LWV Upper Mississippi Region Please Click Here
Tell our members of the Congressional ag committees what needs to happen to build a better Farm Bill 2023!