Overview
This is the year the current farm bill expires
What is 2023, but it's in its third one-year extension, ending in November 2026.
This is the largest category of spending in the farm bill
What is nutrition?
These are examples of commodity crops
What are corn, rice, wheat, cotton and soy?
Full list: wheat, corn, sorghum, barley, oats, seed cotton, long- and medium-grain rice, certain pulses, soybeans/other oilseeds, and peanuts.
The part of the farm bill that supports beginning, socially disadvantaged, and veteran farmers and ranchers, agricultural labor safety and workforce development, and livestock health
What is the Miscellaneous Title?
This is how often the farm bill is updated.
What is every 5 years?
This is the number of people who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) annually?
What is 40 million people?
This is what fruits and vegetables are called in the farm bill
What are specialty crops?
What is the Horticulture title?
Original goals of the farm bill developed in the 1930's as a response to Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
What is
1) to keep food prices fair for farmers and consumers
2) ensure an adequate food supply
3) protect and sustain the country’s vital natural resources
This is the percentage of the farm bill spending devoted to nutirtion?
What is 75%
This is the top commodity crop grown in the United States
What is corn?
This is a marker bill meant to address the agricultural impact of climate change in the updated farm bill
What is the Agricultural Resilience Act?
This is type of agricultural funding must be decided each year to determine how much, if any money is allocated.
What is discretionary funding?
The percentage of the farm bill devoted to crop insurance, commodities, conservation & nutrition
What is 99%
These are the top two uses of corn grown in the United States?
What is livestock feed and ethanol for food use?
True or False - the farm bill covers all food-related policies in the United States
What is false? This is not covered in the farm bill:
These are farm bill programs that have guaranteed funding with mandatory money each year
What are entitlements?
What are credit, rural development, research, extension and related matters, forestry, energy, horticulture, miscellaneous
This percentage of crop insurance went to commodity crops over the last 25 years.
What is over 75%?
The amount of water waste from food waste
What is 25%