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If the Senate acts quickly, as the president requested, the new secretary could be involved in negotiations over a new farm bill, calling for the spending of some $288 billion on crop subsidies, nutrition, conservation, rural development and other items over the next five years.
Every five years, Congress passes a massive bundle of legislation commonly called the "Farm Bill," that sets national policy on agriculture, nutrition, conservation and forestry.
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Environmental groups said it included some important changes but added that it fell short because it would expand crop insurance subsidies and price guarantees for the largest and most successful farmers while cutting nutrition and conservation programs.
The Agricultural Act of 2014 will set policy for the next five years on crop subsidies, nutrition programs, conservation and food stamps.
She has tiptoed into the public sphere, pushing her agenda in education as well as global conservation, nutrition and immigration policy.
The medium also has been extensively used by the government for the promotion of adult literacy, better nutrition, and ecological conservation.
Even efforts to shift some resources from subsidizing crops to soil and water conservation, nutrition programs for the hungry, rural development and agriculture research have lacked sufficient support in the Senate Agriculture Committee or on the Senate floor.
Some smaller nonprofit agencies have already been hit hard, like the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County, whose programs include diabetes prevention, parenting classes, nutrition advice, water conservation and environmentally safe pest control.
But now, less than two years after Mr. Jobs's death, Ms. Powell Jobs is tiptoeing into the public sphere to push her agenda in education as well as global conservation, nutrition and immigration policy, The New York Times's Peter Lattman and Claire Cain Miller report.
These payments represent $26 billion over the life of the bill and could be turned toward neglected nutrition and health programs, conservation and farmland preservation efforts and financial assistance for beginning farmers all over the country.
These payments represent $26 billion over the life of the bill and could be turned toward any number of neglected nutrition and health programs, conservation and farmland preservation efforts and financial assistance for beginning farmers all over the country.
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