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Agricultural Act Of 2014 Essay

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"Agricultural Act of 2014: Highlights and Implications." USDA ERS. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 May 2015.

This web page from the US Department of Agriculture’s website gives an overview of every aspect of the Agricultural Act. On the overview, it gives a graph showing where the outlays are going. In each tab, it specifies what the bill does for each industry. In the first tab, regarding crop commodities, it says among many things that two new programs will be created to compensate farmers in the cost it takes to create crops. It creates two new programs for dairy and livestock as well. Several other things are specified for each of the many categories the bill covers, such as new programs being introduced and replaced in rural development. This page …show more content…

"Congressional Budget Office." Letter to Honorable Frank D. Lucas. 28 Jan. 2014. Congressional Budget Office. N.p., 28 Jan. 2014. Web. 17 May 2015.

Grassley, Chuck E., Sen. "The Agricultural Act of 2014." YouTube. YouTube, 31 Jan. 2014. Web. 17 May 2015.

"H.R. 2642 (113th): Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013." GovTrack. Civic Impulse, LLC, n.d. Web. 17 May 2015.

This GovTrack page for the Agricultural Act of 2014 (the name was changed after it failed to pass before the expiration date, which is why it says 2013 instead of 2014) provides many useful bits of information about the bill. It identifies the sponsor of the bill, Frank Lucas, and includes the official Congressional Research Service summary of the bill. It says the day it was introduced and whether or not the bill was enacted (it was). This page provided very useful pieces of information regarding the bill, all of which I will need to make a decent paper. For example, I was not aware of how the name was changed from the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 to the Agricultural Act of 2014 until I came across this page. The CRS summary is very useful as well, because it provides a shorter and more compiled version of the actual

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