President Obama's FY 2014 budget proposal calls for far greater cuts in farm spending than either the Senate or House farm bills. Overall it provides for $22.6 billion in discretionary spending for FY 2014, which the budget document points out is a freeze at FY 2012 levels. It adds an additional $2.436 billion over farm bill baseline spending in mandatory spending programs for FY 2014, mostly in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP).The president's budget plan for the farm bill "streamlines" conservation programs. This includes significant reductions in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) by 2016, dropping total acres from the current cap of 32 million acres to 25 million...

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