Agriculture

• “Insuring” Farming and Conservation Success (June 2012) The Farm Bill affects more U.S. land than any other piece of federal legislation in place today. For agricultural policy to best serve America’s needs in the 21st century, the 2012 Farm Bill must re-establish the connection between federal crop insurance premium subsidies and basic conservation compliance provisions aimed at protecting wetlands and reducing soil erosion.     
  “Insuring” Farming and Conservation Success (June 2012)
• Keeping the Commitment to Conservation Funding (June 2012) The Farm Bill affects more U.S. land than any other piece of federal legislation in place today. For agricultural policy to best serve America’s needs in the 21st century, the 2012 Farm Bill must maintain the unique functions of current Farm Bill conservation programs, establish continuing mandatory budget baselines for core conservation functions, and oppose funding cuts for mandatory conservation programs in annual appropriations bills.     
  Keeping the Commitment to Conservation Funding (June 2012)
• Sodsaver: Cost-Effective Conservation (June 2012) The Farm Bill affects more U.S. land than any other piece of federal legislation in place today. For agricultural policy to best serve America’s needs in the 21st century, the 2012 Farm Bill must enact a nationwide Sodsaver provision to prohibit federal farm program and crop insurance premium subsidies for native land converted to production if that land does not have a prior cropping history.     
  Sodsaver: Cost-Effective Conservation (June 2012)
• The 2012 Farm Bill: Stewardship, Prosperity, and Fairness National conservation efforts and the natural resources they were intended to protect are in jeopardy. The Izaak Walton League has identified focused, cost-effective policy actions that will help meet these challenges. Our proposals continue the long-term modernization of national farm policy that sustains our farms, our lands, and our people.     
  The 2012 Farm Bill: Stewardship, Prosperity, and Fairness
• Eat Locally: Local Farms Benefit Local Wildlife and Economies The local-foods movement is about more than supporting local farmers. The goal is to create a sustainable landscape that also supports fish and wildlife and our sporting traditions.     
  Eat Locally: Local Farms Benefit Local Wildlife and Economies
• Crop Mobs: Will Work for Food The communities that once sustained small family farms are disappearing, and Americans are becoming farther removed from how our food is produced. Crop Mobs can help solve both problems.     
• Conserve Habitat Through the Farm Bill "Conserving Habitat Through the Federal Farm Bill: A Guide for Land Trusts and Landowners" is comprehensive and practical guide for farmers, ranchers, land trusts, and other landowners who want to increase wildlife habitat on their lands.     
• Going to Market, The Cost of Industrialized Agriculture  
  Going to Market, The Cost of Industrialized Agriculture
• Hidden Treasure: The Conservation Security Program and Wildlife  
  Hidden Treasure: The Conservation Security Program and Wildlife
• Comments on USDA Comprehensive Conservation Plan for Upper Mississippi Fish and Wildlife Refuge  
  Comments on USDA Comprehensive Conservation Plan for Upper Mississippi Fish and Wildlife Refuge
• Comments to USDA Forest Service on SRS Land Sales  
  Comments to USDA Forest Service on SRS Land Sales
• Farm Bill  
  Farm Bill Appendix
  Farm Bill Background
  Farm Bill Executive Summary
  Farm Bill Report