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....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While it’s true that Southern row-crop farmers are likely to find USDA head Mike Johanns’ farm bill proposal unpalatable, the fight is hardly over. Johanns won’t author the final draft, Eric Wailes reminded rice farmers at the Arkansas Rice Conference in Wynne, Ark....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns had hardly concluded his whirlwind tour of farm country to unload details of the Bush administration’s proposal for the next farm bill before the various players began deconstructing it and jockeying for position....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Barry Flinchbaugh leaves little doubt where his loyalties lie when the wizened “gnome of Manhattan” gives one of his two-hour tours de force on the past, present and future of U.S. farm policy....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As much as he might wish it would just go away, “something will probably have to be done on payment limits in the 2007 farm bill,” House Agriculture Committee Chair Collin Peterson says....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The American Soybean Association says Congress should adjust target prices to 130 percent of a 2000-04 Olympic average market price to remove “major inequities” in price and income support levels in the next farm bill....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The cheerleading may not have been on a Super Bowl scale, but following the release of USDA Secretary Mike Johanns’ new farm bill proposal, environmental groups certainly started shaking the pompoms....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Years ago, I was covering a meeting in Greenwood or Greenville or Grenada or somewhere else in Mississippi when a farmer made a comment that struck me as funny....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
They aren’t your common, garden-variety farm organizations, but the 116 groups that sent a letter to House leaders requesting more money for the new farm bill could prove to be valuable allies — or foes — for farmers....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns was the devious sort, you might wonder about the administration’s proposal to increase direct payments for cotton and not for other crops in the first year of the new farm bill....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
American Farm Bureau president Bob Stallman says U.S. farmers could have a new farm program by September of this year, but Congress must confront several obstacles to get a program that’s as good as the current one....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Even on life support, barely breathing and not expected to survive, the Doha Round of trade talks continues to affect U.S. farm bill debates....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., says the same farmers must not have attended the 2007 farm bill listening sessions and hearings conducted by USDA and the House Agriculture Committee over the last two years....
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