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Feb 07, 2014
President Barack Obama signs the farm bill l into law on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.
ASA is excited to announce that after more than three years of negotiations—the farm bill has officially crossed the finish line.
President Barack Obama signed the 2014 farm bill into law on Friday, Feb. 7 during a ceremony at Michigan State University.
ASA member Rob Joslin, who served as Farm Bill Task Force Chair for the past three years throughout the process, represented ASA at the ceremony on Friday. Joslin said President Obama spoke for nearly 25 minutes to a crowd of an estimated 400 people.
ASA thanks the hundreds of farmers that contacted their lawmakers and worked tirelessly to make soy growers’ voices heard on the farm bill throughout the past three years.
