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Albuquerque Journal: New farm bill a boon for NM's farmers, ranchers, families in need
02/09/14 By Michael Coleman
Journal Washington Bureau
It took a couple of years, but Congress has finally passed major legislation to assist American farmers and extend the nation’s food stamp program.
Perhaps most shockingly, they did it by a rare and wide bipartisan margin. The House approved the trillion dollar farm bill in late January by a 251-166 margin. The Senate followed suit last week, voting 68-32 to send it to President Obama’s desk. All five members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation voted for the bill...
...New Mexico lawmakers, including Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, a Democrat who represents northern New Mexico, successfully pushed their colleagues to include language to help acequia and community ditch associations to form partnerships and apply for federal grants through a U.S. Department of Agriculture Environmental Quality Incentive Program. They could not do so before.
“We greatly appreciate the work of our congressional delegation to improve acequia eligibility for conservation programs,” said Paula Garcia, Executive Director of the New Mexico Acequia Association, in a statement provided to the Journal. “Investment in agriculture will expand the availability of locally grown food, and support the livelihood of farmers and ranchers in New Mexico’s acequia communities.”
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