House Ag Committee Leadership Proposed to Kill CSP
Posted by Susan Ponsolle on 05-18-07
What: On May
17 Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) introduced his 2007 Farm Bill Proposal in
which no new sign-ups for the Conservation Security Program (CSP) are
authorized until 2012. In effect, this decision kills the CSP program for
the life of the new farm bill. Funding that is currently dedicated for
CSP is instead shifted under the Peterson proposal to increase funding for the
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), a program that provides
conservation cost share but also currently subsidizes the development and
expansion of factory farms.
Action Needed: Phone calls or faxed letters are needed no later
than Monday May 21 to members of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on
Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research (see list of members at
the end of the alert attachment). These members, who will be meeting on
May 22 to debate the Chairman’s bill, must stand up and express their
disapproval that 2007 Farm Bill funding for the Conservation Security Program
(CSP) be gutted to increase funding for the Environmental Quality Incentives
Program (EQIP) over and above its current $1.3 billion a year.
Please Call or Fax Immediately! Click here for simple instructions.
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