The Senate passed a new farm bill in late June that would cost nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years, financing dozens of price support and crop insurance programs for farmers and low-income families for food. The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, 64 to 35. It now heads to the House, where it faces an up hill battle because conservative lawmakers want to make deeper cuts in the food stamp program, which helps approximately 45 million Americans. Senate voted yes on: Yes to restoring SNAP (formerly food stamps) funding Yes to fund rural development, value added producer grants and beginning farmer programs Yes to organic crop insurance Yes to farm to school pilot study- 1 in each of the 5 different regions of the country Yes to reforming crop insurance Senate voted no on: No to cutting SNAP No to cutting organic support No to repealing the Conservation Reserve Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program No to suspending funding for value-added producer grants until an Office of Inspector General study is completed No to Recommit. This would split the Farm Bill into two bills and slow the process down. No to cut money for Farmer Market Promotion Grants No to cut money for Beginning Farmer and Rancher