WASHINGTON -- The National Grange, the nation's oldest agricultural and rural community organization, recently wrote to the U. S. Representatives urging their support for H.R. 2419, the Farm Bill Conference Report.
The Farm Bill Conference Report makes significant farm policy reforms, protects the safety net for all of America's food producers, addresses important infrastructure needs for specialty crops, increases funding to feed our nation's poor and enhances support for important conservation initiatives.
"Urban, suburban, and rural communities across the nation have been waiting a long time for a new national Farm Bill," National Grange President Ed Luttrell said. "H.R. 2419 is a carefully balanced compromise of policy priorities that has National Grange support along with many other organizations representing the nation's agriculture, conservation and nutrition interests."
National Grange applauds the strong bipartisan leadership demonstrated in Congress to authorize and approve a strong new five-year farm bill.
"Sound policy and long-term certainty are absolutely essential to everyone served by the farm bill," Luttrell said, "And the final conference report provides both."
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