Iowa’s Senator Tom Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Kansas’s Senator Pat Roberts introduced legislation on Monday to reauthorize the USDA’s Certified State Agriculture Mediation Program for five additional years. For press release from Senator Harkin’s office on Iowapolitics.com, click here. For press release from Senator Robert’s office, click here
Currently 35 states are certified under the program, to view a map of the states certified New Mexico State University, click here. For more on the program administered by the Farm Service Agency, click here. For more information, click here to view the Center’s reading room on alternative dispute resolution.
Posted: 06/30/09
