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Farm Bill – Senate Markup
It was quick – the US Senate this morning spent a morning discussing the 2013 Farm Bill in preparation for a full floor debate. I was able to listen to most of the discussion as it streamed live from...
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GIPSA Action Alert from member Vaughn Meyer
ACTION ALERT TODAY Representative Mike Conaway (R-TX) will offer an amendment to the 2013 Farm Bill in the House Agriculture Committee to prevent USDA-GIPSA from implementing rules to enforce the...
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Farm Bill – House Markup
Yesterday the House marked up the Farm Bill late into the night, and it is certainly a mixed bag – more so than with the Senate’s version. First, to report on Conaway’s amendment #5 regarding repealing...
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Dakota Rural Action supports tribes in rejecting Keystone XL
Dakota Rural Action board chair Paul Seamans speaks in solidarity with indigenous tribes in rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline during a press conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, on May 16, 2013. In...
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Calls to Thune and Johnson needed on the Farm Bill
We sent a letter, now we need to make sure they read it! Dakota Rural Action joined with several organizations signing onto a letter urging Senate support for key livestock provisions in the Farm Bill....
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FDA Food Safety Rules
From organizer Holly: Dakota Rural Action, along with a group of several organizations across the country including WORC, have been holding weekly conference calls to develop comments pertaining to the...
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Raw milk rules heading to Legislative Rules Review Committee
With two small changes, the proposed raw milk rules are heading to the Legislative Rules Review Committee (LRRC) on November 12. The two changes are an increase in the allowable bacteria count from...
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Country-of-Origin, and the merits of a good label
As you (hopefully) know, our very own Rep. Kristi Noem is on the Farm Bill conference committee. This committee, made up of House and Senate representatives, should be coming up with a negotiated Farm...
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Senator Tim Johnson on the Farm Bill
Senator Tim Johnson is on record on the Farm Bill – here are his words from yesterday: This conference report certainly is not perfect. As with any legislation that is this important and far-reaching,...
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Tribal Legislative Consideration: the ‘Vanishing Americans’ Comeback
"Native Americans are not the 'Vanishing Americans' but...will soon be one of your most important economic contributors.”
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Weekend Special: The Hidden Costs of CAFOs
UCS (2008) estimates are that there is a $3.86 billion/year grain subsidy to the livestock industry by crop subsidies. Other indirect costs that they consider are reductions in property values ($26...
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Weekend Special: Small Is Beautiful
The evidence is all around us of how fossil fuels are killing us...attachment to an economy of "more and bigger" puts the carrying capacity of the planet in greater and greater danger.
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We Need to Protect Our Resources Now
by Robin EH. Bagley I recently read an article about Stephen Hawking’s prediction that we (as in humans) are taking our species to the brink and will need to colonize space in the next 1,000 – 10,000...
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The Perennial Issue of Water
by Carl Kline Some years ago, I took a group of twenty from the U.S. to India. Our place of residence was the Kasturbagram Rural Institute in Madhya Pradesh. It was a teacher training institution for...
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Cool, Clear Water…Maybe
by Robin EH. Bagley While uranium mining and the groundwater associated with it aren’t the focus of this year’ legislative session, one only has to read back through this blog to see the lack of...
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Zombie Keystone XL Pipeline Comes Back in the Form of – a Resolution?
Put the Zombie Pipeline out of its misery. It's been on life support long enough. Let it die.
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