By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers concerned about the new payment limit rules in the House version of the 2007 farm bill should not pin their hopes on getting a better deal in the Senate....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Was it a tax increase or closing a “loophole” that allows foreign companies to shift U.S. earnings to countries with lower tax rates? Whatever it was, it came perilously close to derailing the “carefully crafted” farm bill the House passed July 27....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When Congressman Ron Kind, D-Wis., introduced legislation aimed at overhauling the farm bill during debate on the measure in 2002, his amendment fell just a handful of votes short of passage — 200-216....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As the House of Representatives grapples with how to pass its version of the 2007 farm bill, two Democratic senators have introduced a bill that could replace the House legislation’s commodity programs with a state-based revenue counter-cyclical program....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Bush administration threatened to veto the House Agriculture Committee’s 2007 farm bill before the full House was scheduled to begin debate and vote on the legislation today (July 26.)...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The only congressional body to write language for the new farm bill voted to extend the 2002 law for five years. But policy experts and lobbyists aren’t giving up on changing the legislation....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Although she is married to a multi-millionaire, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would qualify for farm program payments under the House Agriculture Committee’s new payment limit reforms, Environmental Working Group leaders say....
Anyone who wants to learn about farm policy in the United States has a new source, according to Bobby Coats, professor and economist with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers will see a lot they recognize in the 2007 farm bill passed by the House Agriculture Committee in the early morning hours of July 20. But they’ll also find some new features they may not like or may have to tolerate, according to cotton, rice and wheat groups....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The House Agriculture Committee voted to end conservation and farm program payments for farmers with adjusted gross incomes of more than $1 million and bar all producers from receiving payments for more than one farm entity....
Farm Policy Facts, a non-profit group of farmers and commodity organizations, has launched an on-line petition drive aimed at preventing the enactment of proposals to radically overhaul the current farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Rep. Earl Pomeroy got a good laugh with a comment about one of the proposals considered by the House General Farm Commodities Subcommittee when it met to consider changes to the commodity title of the new farm bill last month....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
During his latest weekly press conference, Rep. Collin Peterson, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, discussed progress on writing a new farm bill. The Minnesota Democrat spoke on the difficulties encountered, the approach by the Bush administration and the role of the South....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“Be careful what you ask for,” Chip Morgan says he tells those who question him about extending the current farm bill....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Thirty working days — that’s all the time left before this year’s congressional session is scheduled to end, and prospects for a new farm bill are slipping fast....
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