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Environment
2:48 pm
Mon October 15, 2012

Wendell Berry Advocates for 50-Year Farm Bill at Local Conference

Credit David Marshall / Wikimedia Commons
Wendell Berry.

Kentucky poet and farmer Wendell Berry advocated for a 50-Year farm bill at the 13th annual Healthy Food, Local Farms Conference this past weekend.

Farm bills are usually passed by Congress every five years. But Berry says a longer-term 50-year farm bill would be more beneficial to the environment.

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