A broad coalition of commodity, wildlife, forest and renewable energy groups is asking Speaker John Boehner to keep the farm bill intact and not split off the nutrition title as the Republican leadership is now considering. A letter to Boehner released Tuesday (7/2/13) lists more than 500 signatories brought together by the American Farm Bureau and the National Farmers Union. A second letter from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition — more closely linked to grass-roots conservation and organic foods groups — also urges Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to work together to find some solution that keeps the bill intact. The two-bill approach has the active support of groups like The Heritage Foundation, but farm groups are plainly worried that it will be ruinous to both the commodity and nutrition titles.
Source: Politico, 7/2/13, Farm Bill
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