September 28, 2018

Dear Conferees,

We write on behalf of the millions of Americans we represent in all 50 states to urge you to reconsider the approach to this year’s Farm…

R Street cited in Town Hall:

Additionally, it expanded subsidies to include cousins, nieces and nephews, who will be eligible to collect an additional $125,000. Like the newly defined family…

R Street Farm Bill work cited in Americans for Prosperity:
Specifically, while commodity spending has doubled its initial cost estimate (currently $32 billion over five years), payments for crop…

R Street cited in American Spectator:
Far from barely getting by, however, farmers had their most profitable year in history thanks to subsidies and sky-high prices. A safety net should provide…

From Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer:

Republicans could have worked with Democrats on a bipartisan Farm Bill, but instead they are doing what they do best: fighting over an unpopular,…

From The Congressional Record:
This so-called Farm Bill is so bad in so many ways to so many people that it is little wonder that it is strongly opposed by leading organizations and associations…

From The Week:
The top 10 percent of the nation’s wealthiest farms receive 77 percent of the farm bill’s commodity subsidies. Meanwhile, as Caroline Kitchens wrote for the R Street Institute…

From Politico:
For many House Republicans, pushing stricter work requirements for SNAP was too important an issue, said Caroline Kitchens, federal affairs manager and a policy analyst with the R…

Cited in the Heartland Institute:
Caroline Kitchens, federal affairs manager and a policy analyst with the R Street Institute, says subsidizing agricultural businesses with taxpayer money encourages…

It’s Friday! Sadly, for our row crop producers, it’s also WASDE day, and USDA dropped some bombshells on the grain markets, with soybeans hardest hit. We’ll run through the numbers and take a look at…