Largely through the bipartisan efforts of the House and Senate Ag Committees' leadership, crop insurance cuts in the two-year budget agreement will be spared with an alternative offset to be developed.
As we reported on 27 October, the two-year bipartisan budget agreement negotiated between the White House and congressional leadership had a $3 billion proposed cut to crop insurance spending. Largely through the efforts of House Ag Committee Chairman Michael Conaway (R-TX) and Ranking Member Collin Peterson (D-MN) as well as those of Senate Ag Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D- MI), crop insurance will be spared when the final bill is considered and an alternative offset is developed.Conaway state...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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