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5 wetland species swamped by toxic ‘forever chemicals’
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USDA: Conservation backlogs grow despite new climate-smart funding

USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program needs reform to improve climate benefits

Rice to riches: Sixteen rice farms padding their pockets with taxpayer dollars

Giving IRA conservation funds to farm subsidies threatens millions of cover crop acres

Pocket pickers: Eight cotton farms picking taxpayer pockets
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Farm bill for the few?
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently pleaded with Congress to reform farm policies to serve the “many and the most,” not the few, citing data showing family farms lagging behind their bigger...

USDA conservation funding benefits all farmers, not just rice, cotton and peanut farmers
All farmers and ranchers – regardless of what they grow or where they live – can participate in Department of Agriculture conservation programs.

Despite new climate-smart funds, agricultural conservation programs remain oversubscribed
The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, set aside $19.5 billion for agricultural conservation programs that pay farmers to implement conservation practices that reduce agriculture’s greenhouse gas...

Calls to increase crop reference prices would help fewer than 6,000 farmers
Some farm groups and legislators have proposed increasing price guarantees for major crops. But the higher price guarantees would mostly benefit fewer than 6,000 farms in a few states, EWG found.

Corn Belt farmers could dramatically reduce nitrous oxide emissions with a handful of conservation practices

Increasing price guarantees primarily benefits Southern states, analysis shows

The Conservation Reserve Program is failing. Congress should fix it.

Funding for climate-smart agriculture critical to tackling the climate emergency

Slashing food, climate funds to boost subsidies would hurt farmers, hungry people
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EWG: 30 years of environmental progress
Every day, consumers are presented with choices about how we protect ourselves and those we love. For the past 30 years, EWG has fought to make it easier for us to seize those opportunities.

Speaker McCarthy should target farm subsidies for the wealthy, not food stamps
This week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made ending food assistance for many hungry people one of his demands for raising the debt ceiling.

Runaway farm subsidies, not SNAP spending, are the real problem
Some people think the biggest problem facing legislators updating this year’s farm bill is that we’re spending too much on feeding too many hungry people.

Will agriculture be America’s leading source of greenhouse gas emissions?

Major USDA conservation program must change to prioritize climate stewardship
