Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1424
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-05-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural credit
Agricultural education
Agricultural estimating and reporting
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural industries
Agricultural innovations
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural pollution
Agricultural prices
Agricultural research
Agricultural subsidies
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture in foreign trade
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
American Samoa
Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Bees
Biomass energy
Biotechnology
Block grants
Carbon cycle
Cellulose
Chesapeake Bay
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Connecticut
Conservation easements
Consumer education
Crop insurance
Dairy industry
Day care
Defense procurement
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric power production
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Families
Farm income
Farm lands
Farm produce
Farms
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Food relief
Food safety
Food stamps
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Forest conservation
Forest management
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Great Lakes
Habitat conservation
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Immigrants
Immigration
Income
Income tax
Indemnity
Individual retirement accounts
Industrial buildings
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Land use
Landfills
Law
Livestock
Marketing of farm produce
Marketing orders
Massachusetts
Methane
Military pay
Milk
Minorities
Nanotechnology
Native Americans
New York State
Nutrition
Open space lands
Organic farming
Post exchanges
Poultry
Private forests
Product development
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Puerto Rico
Range management
Rebates
Research and development
Rural economic development
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Service academies
Shellfish
Small business
Social Welfare
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
Solar energy
Standards
Strategic planning
Student loan funds
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Technology transfer
Vegetables
WIC program
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Watersheds
Welfare eligibility
Welfare work participation
Wetlands
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: 
Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007 - Extends and revises various agricultural programs, including programs respecting: (1) milk and dairy; (2) conservation security; (3) conservation reserve; (4) wetlands reserve; (5) environmental quality incentives; (6) farmland protection; (7) cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (8) wildlife habitat; (9) conservation loan guarantees; (10) market access; (11) food stamps; (12) farm and ranch profitability grants; (13) community forest and open space conservation; (14) healthy forests reserve; (15) biomass and renewable energy; (16) specialty crops, farmers' markets, and nutrition; (17) organic agriculture programs; (18) crop insurance; and (18) colony collapse disorder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Introduced in Senate