Farm Bill and Conservation
February 2007
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Federal Government
Congressional Hearings
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
Working Land Conservation Hearing (Wednesday, January 17, 2007)
Hearing to discuss the Conservation Security Program and Environmental
Quality Incentives Program.
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Witnesses
Mr.
Arlen Lancaster - Chief - Natural Resources Conservation Service
Ms.
Lisa Shames - Acting Director Natural Resources and Environment
Panel 2
Mr.
Craig Cox - Executive Vice President - Soil and Water Conservation
Society
Ms.
Kathleen Merrigan - Assistant Professor Friedman School of Nutrition
and Science
Mr.
Duane Hovorka - National Wildlife Federation
Mr.
James Ham - President - Georgia Association of Conservation
District Supervisors
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
Agriculture and rural America's role in enhancing national energy
security. (Wednesday, January 10 2007)
Description A full committee hearing to discuss agriclture and rural
America's role in enhancing national energy security.
Witnesses & Opening Statements
Panel 1
The
Honorable Philip Sharp - President - Resources for the Future
Dr.
Keith Collins - Chief Economist US Department of Agriculture
Mr.
J. Read Smith - 25 x25 Steering Committee
Dr.
Michael Pacheco - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Mr.
Ron Miller - Pres. & CEO - Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings,
LLC
Dr.
Roger Webb - Director - Strategic Energy Institute
Mr.
Gene Gourley - Natioanl Pork Producers Council -Iowa Pork Producers
Association
Ms.
Loni Kemp - Senior Policy Analyst - The Minnesota Project
Mr.
John Sellers - Member, Board of Directors - American Forage
and Grassland Council
CRS Reports
Agriculture Conservation Programs: A Scorecard (January 3, 2007)
Conservation
Security Program: Implementation And Current Issues (July 24,
2007)
GAO Reports
USDA Conservation
Programs Stakeholder Views on Participation and Coordination to
Benefit Threatened and Endangered Species and Their Habitats
(November 2006)
Agricultural
Conservation USDA Should Improve Its Process for Allocating Funds
to States for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (September
2006)
Conservation
Security Program Despite Cost Controls, Improved USDA Management
Is Needed to Ensure Proper Payments and Reduce Duplication with
Other Programs (April 2006)
USDA
USDA 2007 Farm Bill Proposals
By Title
Title I: Commodity
Programs
Title II: Conservation
Title III: Trade
Title IV: Nutrition
Programs
Title V: Credit
Title VI: Rural
Development
Title VII: Research
& Related Matters
Title VIII: Forestry
Title IX: Energy
Title X: Miscellaneous
USDA Releases
State-By-State National Resources Inventory On Soil Erosion And
Land Cover And Use National Resources Inventory A statistical survey
of land use and natural resource conditions and trends on U.S. non-Federal
lands.
Conservation Security
Program
Fiscal
Year 2006 Conservation Achievements
USDA – Economic Research Service
Conservation
and Environmental Policy
Environmental
Effects of Agricultural Land-Use Change: The Role of Economics and
Policy
Economic Research Report No. (ERR-25) 81 pp, August 2006
Balancing
the Multiple Objectives of Conservation Programs
by Andrea Cattaneo, Daniel Hellerstein, Cynthia Nickerson, and Christina
Myers Economic Research Report No. (ERR-19) 66 pp, May 2006
Major Uses
of Land in the United States, 2002 By Ruben N. Lubowski, Marlow
Vesterby, Shawn Bucholtz, Alba Baez, and Michael J. Roberts Economic
Information Bulletin No. (EIB-14) 54 pp, May 2006
USDA
2007 Farm Bill Conservation And Environment Theme Papers June
8, 2006 Conservation and Environment Executive Summary
Conservation
and Environment Theme Paper
Non Government Organizations
American Farmland Trust and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science
and Policy at Tufts University
The
Conservation Security Program: Rewards and Challenges for New England
Farmers (2006)
Center for Rural Affairs
Conservation
and the 2007 Farm Bill Center for Rural Affairs - Policy White
Paper Traci Bruckner
The
Conservation Security Program: An Assessment of Farmers’ Experience
with Program Implementation (September 2006)
Midwest Sustainable Agricultural Working Group
Hidden
Treasures, The Conservation Security Program and Wildlife (January
2007)
No
Time for Delay: A Sustainable Agriculture Agenda for the 2007 Farm
Bill
Platform Calls for Farm Bill Overhaul to Strengthen Agriculture,
the Environment and Rural Communities
Executive
Summary | No
Time for Delay: A Sustainable Agriculture Agenda for the 2007 Farm
Bill
No
Time for Delay: Synopsis of Key Issues and Recommendations
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