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I would like to share this with all of you and ask if you have the opportunity to call your rep. Also let us hope for rain soon for Michigan. Vicki Morrone ________________________________ From: Michigan Food and Farming Systems - MIFFS [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brown, Elaine Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:54 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: FW: Federal Farm Bill FYI-- Call your congressional reps today request. Read details below. Elaine Michigan Food & Farming Systems--MIFFS 416 Agriculture Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 Ph: 517-432-0712 Fax: 517-353-7961 www.miffs.org ________________________________ From: William Bobier [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:30 PM Subject: Federal Farm Bill So, here it comes! Out of the House Ag Committee and to the floor for a vote late tomorrow. Here is the analysis of the Ag committees bill. http://agriculture.house.gov/inside/2007FarmBill.html <http://agriculture.house.gov/inside/2007FarmBill.html> There is lots of good news for nutrition, specialty crops, conservation, however, the biggest surprise is how little the commodity payments and crop subsidies were changed. The payment cap is, at best, tokenism and affects the bottom line very little and trade distortion even less. Representatives Kind and Ryan are offering substantive set of amendments that the nutrition, taxpayer, conservation, and fair trade communities have been asked to drum up support for. Attached is the background piece sent to me by Environmental Defense. This is of course an ACTION ALERT so if we can call Congressional delegates and ask that they consider the "Fairness in Farming and Food Policy amendment it could make a difference in the final outcome. Bill Bobier Earthscape Resouce Mgt 318 West Ottawa, Lansing, MI 48933 517-484-4928 www.earthscapeinc.org If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html