Healthy Farms, Foods, and Fuels Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-919
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural credit
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural pollution
Agricultural research
Agricultural subsidies
Agricultural wastes
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Biological diversity
Biomass energy
Carbon cycle
Chesapeake Bay
Commerce
Community colleges
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Connecticut
Conservation easements
Dairy industry
Dams
Defense procurement
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic benefits transfers
Elementary and secondary education
Endangered species
Energy
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Energy facilities
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Families
Farm lands
Farm manure
Farm produce
Farms
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishery management
Fishes
Food prices
Food stamps
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest health
Forest management
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government procurement
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Great Lakes
Groundwater
Habitat conservation
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Income
Indian education
Integrated pest management
Interest rates
Iowa
Irrigation
Land transfers
Land use
Livestock
Marketing of farm produce
Massachusetts
Methane
Military dependents
Minnesota
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority education
Mississippi River
Montana
New Jersey
New York State
Non-native species
North Dakota
Nutrition
Open space lands
Organic farming
Pennsylvania
Physical fitness
Poverty
Predator control
Private forests
Protection of animals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Range management
Real estate appraisal
Research and development
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Rivers
School lunch program
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
South Dakota
Sports and Recreation
Standards
Stream conservation
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Vegetables
WIC program
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Water quality
Watersheds
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
Healthy Farms, Foods, and Fuels Act of 2007 - Extends: (1) the conservation reserve program; (2) the wetlands reserve program; (3) the conservation security program; (4) the grassland reserve program; (5) the environmental quality incentives program; (6) the wildlife habitat incentive program; (7) the agricultural management assistance program; 
 
Establishes: (1) the cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (2) the community forestry and open space conservation program; (3) an integrated pest management initiative; (4) a conservation initiative for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers; (5) a conservation planning pilot program; and (6) a cooperative conservation educational assistance program. 
 
Authorizes a conservation loan guarantee program.
 
Revises: (1) the farmland protection program; and (2) funding for the healthy forests reserve program. 
 
Revises and extends the biorefinery development program.
 
Extends: (1) the energy audit and renewable energy development program; (2) the renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements program; (3) the Department of Agriculture bioenergy program; (4) biomass research and development; and (5) carbon cycle research. 
 
Extends: (1) the community food project grant program; (2) the farm-to-cafeteria program; (3) the women, infants, and children (WIC) farmers' market nutrition program; (4) the senior farmers' market nutrition program; and (5) farmers' market promotion program.
 
Establishes: (1) a fruit and vegetable nutrition promotion program; (2) a food stamp fruit and vegetable electronic transfer pilot program; and (3) a farm viability program (currently, program authority is discretionary).
 
Provides for Department of Defense and Department of Agriculture procurement of locally produced agricultural products. 
 
Extends: (1) the organic agriculture research and extension initiative; (2) education grant programs for Hispanic-serving institutions; (3) the value-added agricultural product market development grant program; and (4) and revises the national organic certification and transition cost share program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3354-3355)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate