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Maloney celebrates passage of farm bill extension

Dec 17, 2018 1:00 pm
Chris McKenna is reporting for The Fray U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney spoke in the cider tasting room at Soons Orchard in New Hampton, Orchard County, December 14, celebrating the bipartisan passage of the five-year farm bill renewal. “This bill is better than the 2014 bill, and the 2014 bill was the best we had,” Maloney said. Pieces of three bills the Cold Spring Democrat sponsored were incorporated into the final measure. Among them: a renewed grant program to fund training and other help for new farmers; doubling the loan limit for new farmers to buy land, to $600,000 from $300,000; and changes in federal crop insurance that Maloney said will improve coverage for Hudson Valley farms with diverse crops. Maloney also applauded the elimination of the expanded work requirements for recipients of monthly grocery subsidies through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps. House Republicans put those rules in their version of the farm bill but Senate Republicans rejected them. Read the full story at The Fray.
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