Sentence examples for farm law from inspiring English sources

In recent decades, he said, only one farm law, in 2002, passed on time.

In the last several years, the so-called freedom to farm law has, in my view, been mostly a failure.

In Congress proponents of the farm law argued that without subsidies indebted family farmers would be run off their homesteads.

Congress agreed last year to set aside $171 billion for a new 10-year farm bill to replace the Freedom to Farm law that expires in October.

The new farm law is seen as a betrayal of those promises and of these developing countries' attempts to beef up their own agriculture and feed their people.

The last major piece of farm legislation, the 1996 Freedom to Farm Law, tried to eliminate subsidies and let the market dictate prices and production levels.

In New York, "right to farm" laws are intended to preserve agricultural districts like the Finger Lakes, and many hog farmers here are very opposed to regulations that would limit their livelihood.

"To get renewable energy rolling out in Victoria we need to do two things, rip up the anti-wind farm laws, and institute a state renewable energy target," says Leigh Ewbank, Friends of the Earth's renewable energy spokesperson.

In 2001, Westchester County also established an agricultural district, a state-sponsored designation which protects members with "right to farm" laws that supersede any local ordinances that might conflict with farmers' needs (early-morning mowing, say, or unpleasant odors from animals).

The rules in Senate Bill 711 are better known as "Right to Farm" laws.

States in the American heartland have enacted or are considering so-called "right to farm" laws that would block measures like those proposed by the Humane Society because they ignore the realities of farming, he noted.