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Boozman expects farm bill extension amid legislative crunch

NWA Online 20 Nov 2024
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., anticipates Congress will extend the most recent farm bill as federal lawmakers are running out of time to approve funding for agriculture programs ... .
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Senate farm bill differs from House on CCC, food stamp benefits

The Brunswick News 19 Nov 2024
WASHINGTON — The Senate Agriculture Committee on Monday released its long-awaited farm bill draft text with a little more than a month before funding for many farm programs dries up on Dec. 31. The release of the Senate bill could ... .
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Q&A: Lame-duck session

Oelwein Daily Register 19 Nov 2024
During my annual 99 county meetings this year, passage of a new farm bill gets raised at nearly every meeting. Earlier this year, I pushed Majority Leader Schumer to make passage of a five-year farm bill reauthorization a legislative priority.
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Iowa Farm Bureau: Ripples of agriculture downturn could result in five-figure job cuts

Iowa City Press-Citizen 19 Nov 2024
A new farm bill “extends beyond the farm and protection of our food supply; it also provides access to nutritional programs for families facing hunger, advances conservation efforts and spurs innovation through research,” he said.
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Conservatives will reverse this cruel family farm tax

AOL 19 Nov 2024
But like many farming communities across all regions of the UK, Lincolnshire farmers are warning Labour’s cruel Family Farm Tax will mean they have to sell off their farms to pay the enormous tax bills they will face.
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Farm inheritance tax: farmers cannot go green if they are in the red

The Conversation 19 Nov 2024
Some farms may be able to claim a threshold of £2 million or even £3 million ... The NFU’s figures illustrate the possibility that, even spread over ten years, the inheritance tax bill alone could erase all of a farm’s would-be profits.
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Sen. Moran’s Statement on Senate Democrats’ Proposed Farm Bill (Jerry Moran)

Public Technologies 19 Nov 2024
Debbie Stabenow's (D-Mich.) - chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture - proposed Farm Bill text. ... to deliver certainty to Kansas and America's farmers and ranchers by passing a new Farm Bill.
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Thousands of British farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’

Business Day 19 Nov 2024
... a farm above £1m ... Farmers say that while their land and machinery has a high value, the farms themselves have low profit margins, meaning their children would have to sell land to cover the tax bill.
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UK farmers plan to protest at Parliament over a tax hike they say will ruin ...

Beaumont Enterprise 19 Nov 2024
... they say will deal a “hammer blow” to struggling family farms ... But farmers' groups claim the majority of family farms face a big tax bill.
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'Starmer lied to us': Farmers rally in London to protest government’s inheritance tax reforms

Anadolu Agency 19 Nov 2024
They argued the reforms threaten their livelihoods, could force land sales to cover tax bills, and jeopardize British food security and the future of farming ... "We need to sit down with them and work through a plan that gives family farms a future.".
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More farmers seeking financial advice over inheritance tax changes, say experts

AOL 19 Nov 2024
“Many are concerned their successors may need to sell land or buildings to pay an inheritance tax bill leading to smaller, less efficient farms as a result.” ... to sustain a viable farming business.
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New proposed legislation is threatening Pennsylvania growing hemp industry | Opinion

Penn Live 19 Nov 2024
Since 2019, I’ve been part of Pennsylvania’s growing hemp industry, which the 2018 Farm Bill made possible.
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The farmers’ revolt is coming for Labour

New Statesman 19 Nov 2024
... – a tax rate of 20 per cent still makes agricultural land a safe place to park one’s wealth – but for Rees, the tax bill for keeping his family farm would reach more than half a million pounds.

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