Farm Press Editorial Staff Report
The Senate once again has approved a short-term extension of the farm bill, giving House-Senate farm bill conference committee members until May 2 to complete new legislation....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Tuesday’s farm bill conference had to be particularly unpleasant for Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Any momentum towards finishing a farm bill is at a snail’s pace. Even with the impetus of an increasingly frustrated agricultural base, last Friday’s farm bill conference largely focused on the merits of taxes and accounting methods. The meeting did not go well....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The new farm bill’s conference committee met twice Wednesday afternoon and nearly completed a new forestry title. The farm bill is slowly taking shape, but slowly won’t get the job done in time to beat Friday’s deadline. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In 2005, USDA officials spent thousands of hours traveling around the country, conducting farm bill forums in places like Decatur, Ill., Cheyenne, Wyo., and Blackfoot, Idaho....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Not long after the farm bill conference committee was gaveled back in session on Tuesday morning, several key legislators, with the encouragement of their colleagues, headed to a negotiating session of their own. With a Friday deadline looming, Charlie Rangel, House Ways and Means chairman, and Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee chairman, are attempting to untangle a knot of funding issues outside the main conference. As of Wednesday morning, there’d been no word of their success....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Only the primary authors of a new, approximately $280 billion farm bill still say the legislation will be in place by an April 18 deadline. ...
By Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate leaders say their version of the 2008 farm bill, which contains $10 billion above the Congressional Budget Office “baseline,” should be the model for the legislation that must be passed by April 18 to keep farm programs from reverting to permanent law....
Farm Press Staff Report
Ad hoc disaster assistance bills have proven to be tough nuts to crack in recent years, and passing permanent disaster assistance legislation won’t be that easy either, judging from the first meeting of the farm bill conference committee....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The framework for a new farm bill is in place. However, funds to pay for it remain elusive....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As all sides continue to jostle over a new farm bill, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is an enthusiastic member of the scrum....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As of late March, USDA officials tasked with carrying out President Bush’s farm bill wishes were unwilling to bend on several issues. Raising taxes and large program funding increases are particularly unacceptable. Legislators have been warned that any bill produced must hew to the president’s desires or it will be vetoed....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee — and chair of the Production, Income Protection and Price Support Subcommittee — Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln has been in the thick of crafting a new farm bill. When she spoke with Delta Farm Press on March 20, the Democrat expressed frustration with the seeming “snail’s pace” in the bill’s final phase of deal making. However, she said good legislation was still possible by mid-April. Among her comments:...
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The differences remaining between the Bush administration and Congress in the 2007 farm bill could be worked out within the next few weeks, predicts Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Where’s Tom Daschle when you need him? The last time Congress wrote a farm bill, Daschle, or so the story goes, called agriculture committee leaders in at one point and told them to pass a farm bill. Period. End of story....
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