San Diego 1 in 10 Coalition (SD Food Policy)

01/24/2019

Hey there, and Happy New Year to all of you fierce food and farm system fighters in San Diego. I have tried to reach out and post recently with interwebz troubles and so much other stuff, but here I want to celebrate you all and your efforts in the new year. Solidarity with Healthy Soils and SDFSA with good food purchasing-- these works touch sparks for your gains in 2019!! And please accept our thanks for showing up to support our shared work for equity in the 2018 Farm Bill and to join your friends and allies at Rural Coalition as we achieved momentous gains in the final Bill. Check it out, and do bring your questions about what implementation will mean, and to express what we should fight for in the future.

08/03/2018

Farm Bill is now moving forward - see news from the Senate Ag Committee

08.01.18
Roberts, Stabenow Applaud Vote to Begin Farm Bill Conference, Appointment of Conferees

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today are pleased the Senate has voted to move forward with the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee. The Senators also applauded the announcement of the Senators who will serve on the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee.

Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark.
Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa
Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D.

“This strong group of Senate conferees knows how to work together on a bipartisan basis to get the Farm Bill across the finish line,” said Roberts and Stabenow. “We look forward to beginning the conference process so we can provide certainty to our farmers, families, and rural communities.”

On June 28, 2018, the U.S. Senate passed the 2018 Farm Bill on a strong bipartisan 86-11 vote – the most votes a Senate Farm Bill has ever received. The bipartisan 5-year legislation encompasses a broad array of agriculture, nutrition, conservation, and forestry policy. The Senate bill has the support of more than 500 groups representing thousands of agriculture, food, nutrition, hunger, forestry, conservation, rural, business, faith-based, research, and academic interests. Click here to read the legislation, summaries, and amendments.

The Conference Committee will be composed of members of the U.S. House and Senate. The House conferees were announced earlier this month. A public meeting of the Conference Committee will be announced at a later date.

The United States Senate Committee On Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

05/25/2018

Hello All, thanks for your patience. We just got out two posts about what is happening with the farm bill, and how you can join Rural Coalition's Summer of Equity Actions Campaign. There is more information coming, so join and support and take action!

Keep Fighting to Build a Better Farm Bill By Rural Co Admin | May 25, 2018 This is the first blog post of many in our series on how we can build a better Farm BillStrangely, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass its shoe-in majority version of the 2018 Farm Bill. Why? Because, surprisingl...

05/15/2018

Hi everyone. I see that a good number of folks are looking here, perhaps for Farm Bill updates. So I will post a few things that are a little broader than my current focus on the handful of good bills that we are advocating, and then add in perspectives from Rural Coalition allies. . . Best to all, ALAz

04/18/2018

“Join us to watch the House Agriculture Committee mark-up the tomorrow, Wednesday April 18, at 10 A.M. Follow live stream here: https://t.co/P0KJvWq1wR”

02/24/2018

Are we talking about this?

Small-scale composting could grow in San Diego after the City Council opened a new permitting process for organic waste collection.

01/27/2018

I wrote this review of Chin Jou’s Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help for the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (Vol. 7, No.…

01/26/2018

Hey folks, I am indeed working on federal policy with my primary organization and wanting to share, but Fb has been threatening to "boost" my posts. Is that what is going on, or are you all TRULY interested in receiving this information? So weird.

12/05/2017

As you know, I am working on and collecting lots of information about the tax bill, how it affects farmers, agriculture, cooperatives. Let me know if you want me to flood this space with stuff about how to respond. WE can go, if everybody is ready.

10/18/2017

I think some of our friends here may be less sympathetic to meat producers and thus not watching the ways in which corporate control of the food system makes moves in that part of our food system. (I eat mostly non-dairy pescatarian, judge as you will.) This is a significant loss for all of us, believe me.

NPPC, NCBA pleased with the decision.