The consequences of the new US Farm Bill

The new $290 billion piece of legislation meant to subsidise American farms has been said to undermine World Trade Organisation negotiations at a time of high pressure in international feed markets. Feed Tech talks with a cross-section of experts about the consequences of the 2008 Farm Bill. By Nicholas Zeman The opening of several million acres of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land for livestock foraging purposes, is a provision of the recently passed 2008 US Farm Bill, meant to relieve