Posted September 12, 2013
The National Farmers
Union (NFU) recently concluded its Fall Legislative Fly-In, where the Board
of Directors unanimously passed a resolution supporting the passage of a
five-year farm bill, country of origin labeling (COOL) regulations, and the
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), according to a KTIC Radio article available here.
The resolution states “our interests are at risk yet
again because the farm bill expires September 30th…Now the House must
move swiftly to appoint conferees and begin the formal conference process with the
Senate.” NFU president Roger Johnson
said that the “NFU Board is once against sending a clear message to Congress
that it’s time to complete the 2013 Farm Bill.”
Johnson also said that family farmers and ranchers “will not settle for
an extension of the current law.”
The resolution also calls on Congress and the
administration to protect existing COOL regulations and the RFS, according an
article by The Poultry Site, available here. Johnson said, “In addition to the work that
needs to be done on the farm bill, reauthorizing the RFS needs to be made a
priority in Congress…The RFS is a crucial tool in reducing our reliance on foreign
oil, and provides America’s farmers and rural communities with new economic
opportunities.”
For more information on farm bills, please visit the
National Agricultural Law Center’s website, here. Farmpolicy.com
is another excellent resource for daily updates on the farm bill. For information on a lawsuit involving the
COOL regulations, a recent post from this blog is available here. For recent information on the RFS, posts from
this blog are available here
and here.
