I received this today in my email box:

ACTION UPDATE ON COMMUNITY FOOD PROJECTS IN THE FARM BILL

Thank you for all your efforts to date on behalf of Community Food Projects and other progressive farm bill legislation. Unfortunately, despite all your efforts, funding for Community Food Project (CFP) remains discretionary at $30 million and not mandatory as it has been for 10 years. This means that right now, CFP has no mandatory funding for FY 2008. We need your help to change this in the Senate Farm Bill.

From Just Food:

Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival will take place on Randall's Island on September 9th. This is first time that the annual concert, which raises funds to support family farming and to promote food from family farms, is coming to New York.

Tipped of by an article on Gothamist, I learned that the USDA may relax organic standards even further than they are currently. From the LA Times:

The agency is considering a list of 38 nonorganic ingredients that will be permitted in organic foods. Because of the broad uses of these ingredients — as colorings and flavorings, for example — almost any type of manufactured organic food could be affected, including cereal, sausage, bread and beer.