Fresh Produce Discussion Blog

Created by The Packer's National Editor Tom Karst

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Allocations

Laura Phelps of the American Mushroom Institute passes on these figures from Congress Daily on how spending over baseline was divided among various titles. However, she notes not all Hill staff had seen these numbers, so it may be a work in progress:

The allocations for the five-year bill released Tuesday would increase spending on a 10-year basis for nutrition, including international food aid, by $9.5 billion; conservation by $4.95 billion; commodity programs by $1.4 billion and specialty crops by $1.4 billion in addition to the $2.2 billion for disaster aid. Those increases would be made by possible by reducing research spending by $1.2 billion, crop insurance by $4 billion and farm bill spending in other areas by $4.4 billion. That $4.4 billion presumably includes shifting the timing of farm bill spending outside the period the bill covers.

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