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Farm Bill 2025 overview

Farm Bill 2025 overview

The Farm Bill is reauthorized roughly every five years and covers commodity supports, crop insurance, conservation, nutrition (e.g., SNAP), rural development, research, forestry, and more allocating both mandatory and discretionary funding across programs that touch every state and community. Congress extended the 2018 Farm Bill through September 30, 2025, via the American Relief Act of 2025, providing short-term continuity while leaving several programs without permanent baselines unfunded. Debate in 2025 has been shaped by the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), a reconciliation law that addressed many farm bill-related provisions but left key issues unresolved as the farm bill officially expired on September 30, 2025.

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Table of contents-style breakdown (high-level)

This mirrors how Farm Bill titles are typically organized and debated, not the final statute text.

Commodity programs: ARC, PLC, marketing loans, payment limits, eligibility.
Crop insurance and risk management: Federal crop insurance structure and premium support.
Conservation: Working lands (e.g., EQIP, CSP), easements, climate resilience.
Nutrition: SNAP eligibility, benefits, Thrifty Food Plan updates, QC and waivers.
Rural development: Broadband, energy, water, housing programs.
Forestry: Wildfire mitigation, restoration, timber markets.
Research and extension: Land-grant capacity, competitive grants, data systems.
Trade and food aid: Export market development, international food assistance.
Specialty crops and organics: Grants and cost-share; note several “orphaned” organic programs lack baseline funding under the extension.
Disaster assistance: Permanent and ad hoc aids for extreme weather.

A broad explainer confirms this scope; the current one-year extension kept major baseline programs running while leaving non-baselined “orphaned” efforts—such as certain organic initiatives—unfunded.

Basic breakdown of major 2025 dynamics

Extension and uncertainty: The 2018 Farm Bill was extended through September 30, 2025, averting immediate disruption but frustrating stakeholders due to limited reforms and selective funding. Baseline programs like ARC, PLC, and DMC continued; several organic initiatives did not due to absent baselines.
Reconciliation overlap (OBBBA): OBBB addressed about 80% of farm bill-related provisions, including commodity programs, crop insurance, and tax policy, but left key areas unresolved as the farm bill expired, increasing policy uncertainty for producers.
Commodity support changes: The reconciliation law increased support levels for PLC, ARC, and commodity marketing loans, adjusted payment limits and eligibility starting with the 2025 crop year, and provided for new base acres beginning in 2026.
Nutrition program changes (SNAP): OBBB modified SNAP, including limiting future Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) reevaluations, setting annual TFP adjustments each October to reflect CPI-U, and altering able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) time-limit exceptions and waiver rules; USDA indicated effective dates and a QC “hold harmless” period for states.
Political landscape: Deep, partisan divisions—especially over SNAP cuts advanced through reconciliation—complicate the path to a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization, according to industry voices tracking the debate.

Implementation timetable

Milestone	What happens	Who’s affected
Through Sep 30, 2025	One-year extension of 2018 Farm Bill programs (ARC, PLC, DMC, disaster assistance); some non-baselined programs lapse	Producers, USDA program administrators
2025 crop year (immediate)	Higher support levels for PLC/ARC and marketing loans; revised payment limit/eligibility rules begin	Covered commodity producers
2026	Addition of new base acres under reconciliation law provisions	Eligible producers in qualifying areas
Oct 1, 2025	SNAP: TFP annual CPI-U adjustment schedule takes effect; other OBBB SNAP changes begin per USDA guidance	States, SNAP households
No earlier than Oct 1, 2027	Next eligible TFP market basket reevaluation window	USDA, states
First 120 days post-implementation	USDA QC “hold harmless” for states implementing new SNAP provisions	State SNAP agencies

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Relation to state bills and administration

Nutrition (SNAP) alignment: States will implement OBBB SNAP changes, including new TFP adjustment mechanics and updated ABAWD exceptions (e.g., raising upper age to 65, revising caregiver exception to under-14 dependents, removing certain exceptions while adding others for specified American Indian categories). USDA’s QC “hold harmless” for 120 days supports transition, while waiver approval criteria shift, affecting state-level time-limit waivers and caseload administration.
Agriculture program uptake: Commodity program changes (support level increases, eligibility rules, base acres in 2026) are federally administered but require producer enrollment through state-level USDA offices (FSA/NRCS), influencing how state agriculture departments coordinate outreach, compliance, and disaster reporting tied to federal programs.
Budget and program continuity: The one-year extension stabilized baseline programs through September 2025, but absence of baselines for select organic initiatives (e.g., OCCSP, ODI) means states and producers relying on those supports may need interim state legislation or alternative funding to bridge gaps until federal reauthorization restores or reforms them.

Final summary and strategic outlook

The 2025 landscape is a hybrid: a stopgap extension to September 30, 2025, overlaid with reconciliation-driven changes that lift commodity supports and reshape SNAP mechanics, while leaving unresolved gaps and political friction that delay a comprehensive reauthorization. Near-term focus for producers and states is on enrolling under the updated commodity rules for the 2025 crop year, preparing for new base acres in 2026, and implementing SNAP adjustments with USDA’s transitional safeguards. For advocacy and communications—especially in wellness, agriculture, and hospitality—this moment calls for precise, data-forward messaging: emphasize continuity where secured, name gaps transparently, and guide stakeholders toward enrollment windows, compliance checkpoints, and state-level bridges until a full Farm Bill is enacted.

The farm bill includes hemp programs under the USDA, though this isn’t widely cited in sources. There’s a general note that state legislatures could align with crop disaster assistance, workforce rules, and SNAP waivers impacted by Section 6(o).

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Happy St. Patty’s Day – Go Green! Better clothing, better food, better gadgets. Is there anything Hemp can’t do?

Las Vegas, NV, March 15, 2022 Better clothing, better food, better gadgets. .is there anything hemp can’t do?

Today, the benefits of hemp-based batteries and how a group of American and Canadian researchers used hemp bast fiber (the inner bark of the plant that usually ends up in landfill) to develop a battery that has been used in cars and power tools.

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According to Return to Now, the researchers “cooked the woody pulp and processed them into carbon nanosheets, which they used to build supercapacitors on a par with or better than graphene which is the industry gold standard.”

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Is this new?

No. But with continued research and development, who knows where hemp will take us in 2022 and beyond.

B efore we go back to the future, let’s take a look at how this research team used these fibers and recycled them into supercapacitors.

The woody pulp from the hemp fiber was cooked and processed into carbon nanosheets. These nanosheets are used to build something called supercapacitors.

Supercapacitors are used as energy storage systems. We see these storage systems in the form of batteries that we use to power up different things we use in everyday life.

What we may not know is that “scientists have long struggled developing energy solutions and capacitors that can keep up with the current rate of electronic component evolution.

While we are able to store a large amount of energy in certain types of (non-hemp) batteries, those batteries are very large, very heavy, and charge and release their energy relatively slowly.”

In reality, hemp batteries are designed to work differently than lithium-ion batteries. Researchers term batteries made from hemp as ‘supercapacitors.’

Hemp batteries are referred to as supercapacitors. According to High Grade Hemp Seed, “it’s best to think of a battery-powered car or truck. They need a steady amount of electric energy as they drive down a country road.

However, if that car stops at a red light, the battery will need a big burst of energy when the light turns green to get going again. Lithium-ion batteries are great at storing energy for a long time and expending it slowly.

However, they are not so good at rapidly releasing a large amount of energy, like what a car needs when a red light turns green.” Supercapacitors are good at performing this function. “These types of batteries can discharge their entire load of energy quickly to provide a big boost of energy. That’s exactly what an electric vehicle needs to accelerate quickly. While supercapacitors don’t hold a charge for long, they can absorb regenerative energy from braking.”

The research team, led by Chemical Engineer Dr. David Mitlin of Clarkson University, NY, believed “replacing lithium batteries with hemp would make electric cars and other gadgets” we use in everyday life more sustainable.

Who doesn’t want sustainability?

Especially if you’re one of the lucky ones to have an electric car. Most auto batteries today are made from lithium-ion, an expensive material, so replacing lithium batteries with hemp would make electric cars more sustainable. Now let’s take a look at the benefits of hemp-based batteries, as noted by highhempgradeseed.com: — High Energy Density: Energy density refers to the amount of energy a battery can hold based on its weight.

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The higher energy density a battery has, the stronger the battery.

A 2016 study conducted by Carbon found that hemp-based batteries contained an energy density of 19.8 Watt-hours per kilogram. — Cost: One of the benefits of using hemp over graphene is that hemp batteries can be made using hemp waste that hemp farmers don’t need. This makes hemp both easy to find and much cheaper than graphene. Over the next decades, the world is going to need a lot of batteries to power its vehicles, homes, and cities.

Cheaper batteries made with hemp could keep the cost of this transition much lower. — Availability: Graphene is a versatile “it” material that is finding its way in everything from silicon chips to solar cells and, of course, batteries. However, one of the biggest downsides of graphene is that it is difficult to make in large quantities. Hemp, on the other hand, can grow to maturity in a few months and is known for its ability to grow in many different types of soil, including soils that cannot sustain other crops. — Superconductivity: Batteries need to conduct electricity with as little resistance as possible.

The more resistant a material is to conductivity, the less efficient the battery will be. Hemp-based batteries showed extremely good conductivity. — Temperature Resistance: The conductivity of hemp batteries remains high even in hot and cold temperatures according to the original study on hemp-based batteries.

This is especially important when considering that this technology could one day find itself in vehicles that need to function in searing summer heat as well as icy winter weather.

Is there anything hemp can’t do? We’d like to think there’s nothing hemp can’t do. Simply put, hemp has been the past, present and is definitely the future.

Hemp, Inc. has the largest industrial multipurpose hemp processing facility in North America, an 85,000-square foot facility in Spring Hope, N.C. Its mission of providing green solutions that help make the world a better place continues to flourish as the company advances an ever-growing portfolio of revenue- and value-generating synergistic businesses. Hemp may be the salvation in retooling America for greener, more sustainable domestic manufacturing.

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Hemp, Nature’s “wonder crop” is in the spotlight again during the USDA Secretary’s recent tour of Lincoln University’s Dickinson Research Facility.

Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 15, 2022 Hemp, Nature’s “wonder crop” is in the spotlight again during the USDA Secretary’s recent tour of Lincoln University’s Dickinson Research Facility. reports today that hemp’s role in sustainable agriculture has garnered the attention of USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsack, as he recently announced that $1 billion in grants will be offered by the federal government to support climate-friendly farming when he toured the facility that studies agriculture.

According to the news source, grants under this program are intended to “engage agriculture, forestry and rural communities in the nation’s fight against climate change” and bolster sustainable agriculture.

What’s more climate-friendly than hemp? Environmentalists believe this “wonder crop” has the potential to make huge strides in the regenerative agriculture movement. Let’s take a look at why they believe that and how industrial hemp farming projects could see some of that $1 billion in grant money. First, hemp can improve soil health. It can be cultivated in almost any environment across the country regardless of the climate and generate high yields with a short 120-day harvest cycle (ideal for crop rotation).

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The self-sustaining Smartbox processes the hemp plant into high-value hemp seed oil that can be used as a biodiesel (some of which can fuel the Smartbox’s own generator), fuel pellets or livestock bedding, and hemp seed cake.

“As a cover crop, hemp restores degraded soil by blocking out the room for weeds – reducing the need for synthetic herbicides and adding diversity to crop rotations.” After harvest, hemp leaves behind biomass that can be “up-cycled into added-value products or returned to the soil, feeding essential nutrients back into the ground.”

Second, hemp supports bioremediation.

Bioremediation is when you use living things to heal and cleanse soil after years of toxic build-up. Hemp has a deep root structure and guards against weeds, naturally preparing the soil for rotation. One can liken hemp’s root structure to a vacuum cleaner – accumulating heavy metals and other toxins from the soil before it enters surrounding groundwater.

Third, hemp grows faster than trees and can “sequester large quantities of carbon dioxide back into the ground.”

Hemp is “a zero-carbon energy source with applications in biofuel.” In fact, scientists estimate that “for every ton of hemp cultivated, 1.63 tons of CO2 is removed from the atmosphere.” (Source) Overall, hemp, as the industry continues to mature, has the power to “lower the ecological impacts of food, fuel and fiber production, empower small-scale farmers and create jobs in a variety of industries.”

But while we praise this wonder crop, we have to remember a total hemp-based economy doesn’t automatically equate to a greener future. Yes, the industry is maturing but it’s up to the farmers to ensure that it’s grown in a way that heals the land, not destroy it like conventional commodity crops which erodes soil and externalizes pollution.

The Climate 21 Project (the funding program that’s part of a broader initiative) under the Biden administration outlines the steps the USDA can take to encourage farmers, ranchers and landowners to take up practices that scientists believe can help reduce atmospheric carbon. It “taps the expertise of more than 150 experts with high-level government experience to deliver actionable advice for a rapid-start, whole-of-government climate response coordinated by the White House” and accountable to President Biden.

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The Hemp Inc Company projects that it may be eligible to receive some of the $1 billion funding must “demonstrate climate-smart production practices, activities and systems on working lands; verify the carbon and greenhouse-gas benefits associated with those practices; and work to develop markets and promote their climate-smart commodities.”

The grants are available to local, county, tribal and state governments, small businesses and for-profit organizations, nonprofits and universities. Applications are being accepted for projects between $5 million to $100 million through April 8th but the deadline for pilot projects up to $250,000 is May 27th.

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/ January 19, 2021 / Cannabis Global, Inc. (OTC PINK:CBGL), an innovation-oriented company investing in disruptive cannabis and hemp-related technologies, today announces the filing of a new patent on a unique method to produce water-soluble cannabinoids. The patent announced today relates to a composition comprising one or more cannabosides and a method of producing one or more cannabosides. In particular, by feeding an insect a cannabinoid and harvesting the insect, excluding honey bees, to improve aqueous solubility and stability of cannabinoids. The patent claims coverage of both the process to create the compounds, and the use of the compounds in foodstuffs and pharmaceutical preparations. Cannabinoids are basically oil and thus hydrophobic, meaning these don’t mix well with water. Of course, the human body is mainly made of water. In the most simple of terms, this issue of cannabinoids being oils and our bodies being made mostly of water presents a significant challenge relative to formulation and delivery for the cannabis and pharmaceutical industries. “Our corporate research program was specifically designed to address issues relating to the absorption of cannabinoids,” commented Arman Tabatabaei, CEO of Cannabis Global. “The results have been the filing of three patents on cannabinoid delivery technologies, two of which specifically address using life forms to process and alter cannabinoids. We believe what we have invented represents a new form of cannabinoids processing with a host of positive implications for cannabinoid delivery in foods, beverages and pharmaceuticals.”

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Farm Bill 2025 overview

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Final summary and strategic outlook

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