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 * Titles/conservation

The following titles in the 2018 farm bill fund efforts to reduce the environmental impact of farming and to address climate change.

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 * Title II, Conservation: Provides assistance to agricultural producers to address environmental resource concerns on private land. It encourages environmental stewardship and improved management through land retirement, conservation easements, working lands assistance, and partnership opportunities.
 * Title VIII, Forestry: Supports forestry management programs run by USDA’s Forest Service. Some of the areas that relate to climate change are wildland fire management, forest management and restoration and protection of water source and watersheds. Provisions are included to protect, restore, or improve greater sage-grouse and/or mule-deer habitat.
 * Title IX, Energy: Encourages the development of farm and community renewable energy systems through various programs, including grants and loan guarantees. It funds research and development of energy obtained from agricultural or forestry feedstocks, commonly called bioenergy. The most prevalent form of bioenergy is ethanol. Title IX finances a the commercial scale production of such energy resources.

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On November 2023 President Joe Biden signed into law H.R. 6363 which extended the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the 2018 United States farm bill, until September 20, 2024.

citation: [https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/farm-bill/index#:~:text=6363%2C%20the%20Further%20Continuing%20Appropriations,enacted%20on%20December%2020%2C%202018. https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/farm-bill/index#:~:text=6363%2C%20the%20Further%20Continuing%20Appropriations,enacted%20on%20December%2020%2C%202018.]

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Removed the following paragraph from the history section since it is irrelevant to the article and it is in another article that is already linked.

On May 18, 2018, the $867 billion 2018 United States farm bill failed in the House of Representatives by a margin of 198–213. All Democrats and 30 Republicans voted against the measure. Republican opposition came largely from the Freedom Caucus who insisted that a separate vote to restrict immigration be held before they would support the bill. Democratic opposition was largely due to the proposed changes to the attached Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that would impose work requirements. After the 2014 farm bill expired in September 2018, the 2018 farm bill was signed into law on December 20, 2018.

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In the United States, the farm bill is comprehensive omnibus bill that is the primary agricultural and food policy instrument of the federal government. Congress typically passes a new farm bill every five to six years.

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The farm bill is organized into titles. Four titles accounted for 99% of anticipated farm bill mandatory outlays: nutrition, crop insurance, farm commodity programs, and conservation. The funding in some of the titles is directed at efforts to reduce the environmental impact of farming and to address climate change. In particular,


 * "Title II: Conservation "Encourages environmental stewardship of farmlands and improved management on private land through land retirement, conservation easements, working lands assistance, and partnership opportunities."
 * Title VIII, Forestry: Supports forestry management programs run by USDA’s Forest Service. Title IX, Energy: Encourages the development of farm and community renewable energy systems through various programs, including grants and loan guarantees.
 * Title IX, Energy: Encourages the development of farm and community renewable energy systems through grants, loan guarantees, and feedstock procurement initiatives. Provisions cover the production, marketing, and processing of biofuels and biofuel feedstocks, and research, education, and demonstration programs"

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RS22131.pdf

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Notes on Wind power in Wyoming:

Bias in first paragraph about oil/gas first para has irrelevant info

Resource section has opinions & should be broken into subsections

No mention of exported wind energy & markets

500 residents of Medicine Bow!!??

NYT about land rush!!

Missing references. Confusing and poorly organized list of wind farms Grade: C

Wind Rose

First paragraph doesn't give a good summary of the wind rose. The history section is long and has more content than other aspects. It doesn't mention how they are created (met towers) It doesn't mention many of the disciplines that use them (wind, radiation fallout).

Needs more sources, eg for wind rose graph

Rating: C