By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The high stakes poker game between Congress and the Bush administration over the farm bill is enough to put the fear of the Almighty into even the most hardened gambler. And the spectators who will be most affected by the outcome, the nation’s farmers and ranchers, can do little but watch and send representatives to offer opinions....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
No wonder Iowans keep sending Chuck Grassley back to the U.S. Senate. Tough, tenacious, the five-term senator is everything you would want the person representing your state to be....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Just when it seemed the 2008 farm bill couldn’t get any more complicated, word spread that House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., had been hospitalized in New York with the flu....
The Senate passed an extension of the 2002 farm bill to give its and House Agriculture Committee leaders more time to try to reach an agreement with the White House on a new farm bill....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Having a week earlier promised that Congress was preparing “a final range” of funding for the farm bill (see http://deltafarmpress.com/farmbill/harkin-negotiations-0305/), at a March 6 press conference Senate Agriculture chairman Tom Harkin announced a figure of $10 billion above baseline had been agreed upon....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Delegates to the National Farmers Union’s annual meeting in Las Vegas called on the Bush administration and congressional leaders to resolve their differences so a new farm bill can be enacted immediately....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The pace of farm bill negotiations remains glacial. Even with Southern farmers’ planting windows sliding open, Congress and the White House seem unable to get unstuck from the rhetorical muck....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In the 30 years he’s been farming, John Thaemert says, there have been three years when he felt as optimistic about the wheat outlook as he does in 2008....
By Forrest Laws and David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Ever since the Environmental Working Group began posting the names of farm payment recipients on its Web site, farmers have been wondering how the negative publicity would play out in the farm bill debate....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If you think that giant clucking sound you’ve been hearing is Congress and the White House playing chicken with the farm bill, you might not be far off the mark....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Helping Congress write a farm bill the president can sign remains the top priority, but the federal government should be looking beyond the traditional safety net of farm programs to make U.S. agriculture competitive, Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If you report more than $200,000 on the adjusted gross income line of your tax return, the Bush administration doesn’t think you should receive a commodity program payment....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
More than 150 farmers attending a farm day forum sent a message to Washington via Louisiana Congressmen Charles W. Boustany Jr. and Charlie Melancon and Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark Keenum: they need a new farm bill and they need it now....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The White House needs to get tough with our trading partners, not our own farmers, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., told members of the cotton industry gathered at the National Cotton Council’s 2008 annual meeting in Memphis....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee say they don’t buy arguments that more than $6 billion has to be cut from the 2008 farm bill so that it can pass muster with the Bush administration....
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