By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Despite claims by some lawmakers to the contrary, Congress did not mandate any changes in the “actively engaged” language in the new farm bill’s payment limit reforms, National Cotton Council leaders are saying....
Farmers must make a choice on government program participation before the next crop year. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The chairmen of the House and the Senate agriculture committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill....
Farmers have begun receiving $1.15 billion in direct payments for the 2008 crop year, USDA officials announced. ...
USA Rice Federation staff will provide rice industry members with an overview and explanation of the key provisions of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (the recently enacted 2008 farm bill) at meetings to be held in Arkansas and northeast Louisiana, July 21-23....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Mid-South farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation....
The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers in Iowa and other states affected by flooding should not be “penalized” for having to make decisions dealing with crop losses that could come back to haunt them when USDA finishes writing regulations for the new farm bill....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The new farm bill — which the Bush administration opposed for many months — wasn’t completed until June 18. Although displeased with the legislation, the USDA realized a tidal wave of congressional support for the bill meant its passage was inevitable....
Signup for the USDA 2008 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program (DCP) has begun. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said the programs help deliver certainty for the crop year and the option of a timely advance payment. Contracts are available at USDA Service Centers and signup will continue until Sept. 30....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 eliminates the three-entity rule for farmers, it also makes it easier for a spouse to become eligible for payments....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In an unusual case of farm bill déjà vu, Congress voted yesterday to override President Bush’s second veto of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act....
By Duane Dailey
University of Missouri
Government biofuel policies affect fuel and farm commodity prices, but the price of a barrel of oil can have even larger effects....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Pascal Lamy, the World Trade Organization director-general, says the U.S. Congress passed a bad farm bill, one that sends the wrong “signal.” ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The ink isn’t dry on the final version of the 2008 farm bill (President Bush was expected to veto the full bill passed by the Senate June 4 within a few days, and the House and Senate were expected to vote to override once again.)...
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