The elephant in the room….

….or in Congress.

Now that the dreaded farm bill….with billions for town and farm….has marched down the hill (as in Capitol) again….what next?

Normally, the city legislators get behind the pork (with apologies to the guys out back in the woods) for farmers in exchange for easy sailing for their much-loved Food Stamps.  This time, however, at the last minute some cost-conscious folks upended the deal.

Brian Snyder, the executive director of The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, was very involved in the early stages of the Farm bill negotiations and we were critical of his role.  We felt he had been lured in by the Big Boys to provide cover for the monstrosity.  Now he’s having second thoughts about the whole process and predicts (rightly, this time) that it’s all going to come to a bad end.  At the last minute.

http://writetofarm.com/2013/06/26/time-for-the-whole-enchilada/