PRESS RELEASE Washington, D.C., April 23, 2012— American Farmland Trust (AFT) welcomed the 2012 farm bill draft unveiled late last week by the Senate Agriculture Committee. AFT President Jon Scholl commended Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Senator Pat Roberts ofKansas, the committee’s Ranking Minority Member, for their efforts [...]
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“We need to basically bring ourselves together, converge our thoughts, our minds, our resources, in terms of where we want to be with agriculture in this country utilizing the tools that a federal government might bring together — to start really very seriously preparing ourselves for an exciting process that is ultimately a plan for the agricultural future of this country.”
— AG Kawamura, former California Secretary of Agriculture and co-chair of Solutions From the Land