Maloney with Liz Corio (left), vice president of Glynwood, the Hudson Valley’s farm business incubator
and Jessica Manley of the National Young Farmers Coalition
NEW HAMPTON – The 2014 federal farm bill expired on September 30 and lawmakers in Washington have yet to approve a new plan and Hudson Valley Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney said that is hurting Hudson Valley farmers.
They are “collateral damage” in terms of programs and funding that are being held up by Republican leadership in the House, he said while at Soon’s Orchards in New Hampton on Thursday.
“Unfortunately the House Republican chairman, Mike Conaway from Texas, and some of his colleagues have held it up with some extreme provisions that would hurt our conservation programs, completely undermine the SNAP program, which provides critical nutritional assistance to so many New Yorkers and to millions of people around the country and do other things that we think are unacceptable and unnecessary for all the good things that the farm bill does,” Maloney said.
