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House Committee Approves Proposed Amendments to Dodd-Frank The Committee passed six bills that modify the Dodd-Frank Act. “The feedback we heard was fairly consistent – across the country farmers, ranchers, community banks and Main Street businesses are worried about the unintended consequences of Dodd-Frank rules,” said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas. (AgriPulse)
Heaven and Earth for a Farm Bill “Despite election-year rhetoric in Congress, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas still sees an opportunity to finish a farm bill in 2012, saying he feels a strong urgency to accomplish that goal.” (DTN)Bill Gates Calls for More Agriculture Research to Fight Hunger “Bill Gates has a terse response to criticism that the high-tech solutions he advocates for world hunger are too expensive or bad for the environment: Countries can embrace modern seed technology and genetic modification or their citizens will starve.” (Huffington Post)
Recipe for a Federal Takeover of Farming “By injecting the federal government into the marketplace with no benefit to the public or animal health, it has the potential to irreparably damage the livelihoods of farmers and ranchers across the country.” (Chicago Tribune) |
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