The Feb. 7 passage of the $956 million, five-year Farm Bill was the culmination of three years of congressional negotiations.
Leaders of both parties negotiated toward a Farm Bill that could generate enough acceptance for passage. Their efforts were successful and true to the nature of negotiations, neither side got everything they wanted.
The Agricultural Act of 2014, at 959 pages, represents roughly one page for each $1 million it will cost.
The bill makes changes to many of the hundreds of federal programs that seek to stabilize the financial field for agricultural producers. The goal behind those programs is to protect the country's food supply by keeping its farmers in business.
Farmers need to determine how the bill will affect the way they do business.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture staff has been taking the complex bill apart section by section to determine where changes have been made and what those changes will mean for producers.
The end of the existing crop subsidy program, creation of expanded crop insurance programs and complicated payment formulas are just three of the issues being explored.
USDA is now ready to share that knowledge, said Nevada State Public Affairs Officer for the NRCS Heather Emmons.
There is a meeting in Lovelock for Pershing County producers Monday, March 10 from 2- 4 p.m. at the Pershing County Community Center; the meeting for Humboldt and Lander counties' producers will be March 11 in the Sonoma Conference Room at Humboldt General Hospital
The outreach and information meetings, being held all around the state, are a joint venture between NRCS and the Farm Service Agency and will include time for a question and answer session.[[In-content Ad]]
