Sentence examples for farming law from inspiring English sources

In California last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law requiring that all whole eggs sold in the state conform to the provisions of Proposition 2, the humane farming law that was embraced by state voters in a landslide in 2008.

In 2015 big corporations did convince the legislature to overturn the 1932 anti-corporate farming law.

Because Smithfield has a meatpacking plant in Sioux City, Mr. Miller said the acquisition of Murphy, which raises hogs in Iowa, violated the state's corporate farming laws, which forbid a company to control farm production and processing.

Besides, anticorporate farming laws and other vestiges of populism still exist in the Great Plains states.

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 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.

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 new farm law pledged to phase out many of the government's Depression-era price-support programs and intended to wean farmers from subsidies by 2002.