Washington, D.C.—Congress has passed an $867 million farm bill with bipartisan support. The Senate passed the bill with an 87 to 13 vote; the House of Representatives followed the next day, approving the legislation with a vote of 386-47, according to a report in the Washington Post. The bill now heads...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Negotiators in Congress have struck a tentative deal on the Farm Bill. “We’re pleased to announce that we’ve reached an agreement in principle on the 2018 Farm Bill,” House and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairmen Mike Conaway (R-Texas) and Pat Roberts (R- Kan.) and Ranking Members Collin Peterson (D-Minn.)...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vote Hemp, the nation’s leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization working to change state and federal laws to allow commercial hemp farming, celebrates the passage of SB 1409 in California, which legalizes hemp farming in the state. A major victory for the hemp industry, Governor Brown signed Vote...
Baltimore, MD —Passage of the “game changing” hemp provisions in the Farm Bill of 2018 is expected to go smoothly, according to a panel of attorneys at the Natural Products Hemp & CBD Summit. While it will be a landmark action, some ambiguities will remain because states will still have...
Washington, D.C. -- The Farm Bill passed by the U.S. Senate leaves out multivitamins as an allowable purchase with SNAP benefits. But the fight is not over yet. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) failed to get an amendment inserted to include the benefit, which made its way through the House version.
Washington, D.C — The Agriculture and Nutrition Bill passed 213-211, which included the controversial work rules for most adult food-stamp recipients, passed the House but is predicted to face a rocky road in the Senate. The package allows SNAP recipients to purchase multivitamins with their benefits. In response to the passage...
The 11th hour email deluge that helped preserve the Hemp Farming Act of 2018, is just the beginning of what will be a vigorous fight. As Bette Davis famously said in movie classic All About Eve, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.” On the eve of...
Managing editor Sebastian Krawiec discusses the rapidly scaling market for hemp-based products, the state of the Farm Bill, and other topics addressed in his June 2018 cover story for WholeFoods Magazine. Editor-in-Chief Laurie Petersen shares what she saw at the Cannabis World Congress and Exhibition at the Javits Center in...
The Farm Bill has passed the Senate Agriculture Committee with a 20-1 vote, with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) being the sole "no" vote after his amendment was not attached to the proposed bill. The bill will now move to a vote on the Senate floor, but Grassley may yet attempt...
Washington, DC — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's Hemp Farming Act of 2018 remains completely intact and will be included in the review of the overall 2018 Farm Bill by the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee scheduled to begin June 13 Should the bill be signed into law as currently drafted,...
