Health Care Reform Debate
Pennsylvania's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives received a letter prior to its passage of H.R. 3962 (Affordable Healthcare for America Act) by a slim vote margin. Click here for the record of how they cast their vote.
As massive health care/health insurance reform legislation works its way through the U.S. Congress, Farm Bureau wants to be sure that farmers with employees are not burdened with costs they cannot afford. More
Pennsylvania Declared Free of Plum Pox Virus
(Camp Hill) - Pennsylvania Farm Bureau (PFB) is celebrating the announcement that Pennsylvania is free of the Plum Pox Virus. Following ten years of extensive efforts from state and federal agencies, farmers, the fruit production industry and others, quarantine orders for the Plum Pox Virus were rescinded today. More
PA Farm Bureau Pleased by PMMB Decision to Increase Dairy Price
PA Farm Bureau commended the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board (PMMB) for its decision to increase the Class I over-order premium price for milk by 50 cents per hundredweight to $2.65 per hundredweight for Novembehh and December 2009. More
State Budget is Mixed Outcome for Agriculture
PA Farm Bureau says the new state budget makes cuts for the state Dept. of Agriculture within the margin of reduced funding for other agencies, but slashes support in certain areas vital to agriculture, the food industry and consumers.More
How the state budget appears to affect ag programs
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