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A five-year farm bill will end months of uncertainty for farmers and agriculture workers, its backers say. The Agricultural Act of 2014 would also end a long-criticized farm subsidy program.

More Coloradans are receiving food assistance today than during the worst months of the Great Recession.Since 2007 the number of people receiving benefits…

The farm bill expired at midnight on Monday, leaving farmers and ranchers across the country guessing at what federal farm policy will look like when they…

The bill would cut funding for the program over the next 10 years and affect an estimated 4 million Americans. The measure, passed narrowly along party lines, is not expected to pass the Senate.

The measure would cut $40 billion from the federal SNAP program over 10 years. Republicans who back the cuts say they attack fraud. In reality, the vast majority of SNAP recipients either work or are children, disabled or elderly. The House is poised to take up the bill Thursday.

More than half a million Coloradans who currently receive food stamps will likely see their benefits reduced this fall.According to a report [.pdf] from…

Republican leaders muster the votes to get passage of an abbreviated measure despite opposition from Democrats.

The U.S. House passed its version of farm bill legislation Thursday.The revamped bill strips out funding for food aid and deals only with farm policy,…

Perhaps the most important of the welfare reform measures passed by Congress 17 years ago doesn’t serve three-fourths of working poor families in Colorado…

Incentive programs that double the value of food stamp dollars spent at farmers markets have been hailed as one of the most effective ways to encourage healthful eating and support local farmers. The flaw: Most people don't shop at farmers markets. So a new program will soon pilot the concept at three grocery stores in Detroit.