By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The 800-pound gorilla has spoken. The American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation’s largest farm organization, is asking Congress to write a new, fiscally responsible farm bill that “works for all farmers.”...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Government accounting practices have always been more art than science. Some of us can remember the late Sen. Everett Dirksen’s saying: “A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon it adds up.”...
In testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee, American Soybean Association (ASA) First Vice-President John Hoffman outlined the economic opportunities and challenges facing U.S. soybean growers. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns appears to be poised to break with tradition by becoming the first secretary in recent memory to submit a farm bill to Congress. Whether the draft bill gets more than a cursory review remains to be seen, however....
BY Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Each time Iowa’s Charles Grassley and North Dakota’s Byron Dorgan introduce their payment limit amendment, many farmers shudder, wondering if this will be the time the senators finally put them out of business....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The National Corn Growers Association says its Revenue Counter-Cyclical Program proposal would provide farmers with safety net protection when they actually need it at a cost of only $500 million above the Congressional Budget Office baseline....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Bruce Babcock says the best way for Southern farmers to relate to the National Corn Growers Association’s Revenue Counter-Cyclical Program proposal may be to think of it as a much-improved version of crop insurance....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A cotton farmer who plants corn on his base acres this spring could receive $94 more per acre than a corn grower who plants corn. It’s one of the ironies of Freedom to Farm, the 1996 law widely supported by corn and wheat and labeled “Freedom to Fail” by cotton and rice producers....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. farmers receive most of their income from the markets, and Congress should eliminate farm subsidies by establishing a low baseline in the Budget Resolution for the Commodity Credit Corp. The only problem with this claim — by the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense Action, a Washington-based “non-partisan, budget watchdog” — is that someone forgot to tell the markets....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate passed a fiscal year 2008 budget resolution that creates a $15-billion reserve fund to provide increased spending on farm programs in the 2007 farm bill Congress is expected to write later this year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Reports of the death of the National Corn Growers Association’s revenue counter-cyclical proposal may be somewhat exaggerated....
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
Louisiana farmers aired their concerns at a recent Farm Day Forum called by Congressmen Charles Boustany of Lafayette and Charles Melancon of Napoleonville in preparation for the upcoming debate on the 2007 farm bill....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Speaking before a friendly Southern audience at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark., U.S. senators Blanche Lincoln and Saxby Chambliss dropped their the letter g only slightly faster than support for many of the Bush administration’s new farm bill proposals. To the Southern senators, farming was farmin’, hunting was huntin’ and U.S. agriculture policy was ascendant....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Bush administration’s farm bill proposals have attracted a considerable amount of attention from the national media and environmental groups. But farm organizations haven’t had much to say about them — until now, at least....
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