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Down on the farm; what’s next?

Lawmakers raced against the clock this New Year’s Eve and successfully avoided the dreaded “fiscal cliff” for now. But along with this avoidance, an important bill - the farm bill that has been worked on for the past five years - was extended instead of undergoing a new installment.

The extension of the farm bill extension threw out the new version that had been progressing and approved through the senate; but it had not been approved by the house. Instead it extended the same programs that have been in place from the 2008 bill for the span of 2013.

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