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    From hemp to organic foods, farm bill embraces change in rural US

    Dec 12, 2018 4 minutes

    Every five years or so, Congress passes a farm bill, which offers a peek into the future of agriculture.

    This year’s bipartisan version, while mostly aimed at stabilizing the status quo, nevertheless offers changes and new initiatives that boost organic farming, crop diversity, and advanced conservation. And for the first time in decades, it allows US farmers to produce industrial hemp, a non-hallucinatory version of marijuana.

    The Senate passed the compromise bill 87-13 on Tuesday, and the House followed suit Wednesday with a 369-47 vote.

    Separately, McDonald’s, the nation’s largest purchaser of beef, announced Tuesday it was aiming to

    Hemp for consumer productsGive-and-take over conservationFrom McDonald’s, ‘progress’ on antibiotics

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