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Peterson farm bill proposal limits new funding to $6 billion

Feb 15, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson said he and the committee’s ranking member have developed a farm bill with only $6 billion in new spending that President Bush will sign....

Why are Democrats so eager to cave on farm bill fight?

Feb 15, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

What’s the rush? Some months ago, a farm bill analyst said in these pages that Congress had plenty of time to write a new farm bill; that all the scurrying around by House Agriculture Committee members was too much, too soon....

Dorgan, Grassley, Post writers just don’t get it

Feb 13, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Byron Dorgan and Charles Grassley don’t get it. Kent Conrad and Collin Peterson do. All are from the Midwest, represent heavily agricultural constituents and serve on the House or Senate agriculture committee....

House leaders urge ‘realistic’ farm bill approach

Feb 12, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The chairman and ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee are urging the diverse groups interested in the new farm bill to find a way to move the legislation forward and enact it into law....

Senators pressure president to not veto farm bill

Feb 7, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Senate Democrats are mounting a full court press to try to persuade President Bush to back off his threat to veto the farm bill that a House-Senate conference committee is expected to report out in March or April....

Louisiana forum will focus on farm bill, trade agreements

Feb 7, 2008

Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La., and Rep. Charles W. Boustany Jr., R-La., will host Farm Day 2008 Feb. 20 at the West St. Mary Civic Center in Jeanerette, La....

Bush budget increases funding for food safety, security

Feb 6, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

President Bush’s fiscal 2009 USDA budget includes increased funding for food safety and security programs but would not provide the level of funding needed to meet the projections for commodity program spending under the current farm law, critics say....

Senate names members of farm bill conference committee

Feb 5, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin and ranking member Saxby Chambliss announced 11 senators — six Democrats and five Republicans — will serve on the House-Senate farm bill conference committee....

Harkin: President needs to ‘bend a little’ on farm bill

Feb 5, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The clock is ticking, says Sen. Tom Harkin, and the Bush administration needs to show a little more flexibility if it wants farmers to have a new farm bill by the time the extension of the current law expires on March 15....

House, Senate farm bills face veto

Feb 1, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Neither the House nor the Senate farm bill proposal veers far away from current policy, but each includes payment limitations and each faces the likelihood of a presidential veto....

Peterson: permanent law preferable to options

Jan 29, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Agree with him or not, Collin Peterson’s tenure as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee has been marked by frank talk. And in late January, with a new farm bill mired in negotiations and political posturing, the Minnesota Democrat certainly isn’t changing his approach....

Disaster benefits extended… sign-up begins

Jan 28, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Farmers who experienced crop, feed and livestock losses due to weather problems that occurred between Feb. 28 and Dec. 31, 2007, can apply for disaster payments at county Farm Service Agency offices, USDA announced....

Farm bill conference may draw more interest this time

Jan 25, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Morgan remembers going to meetings of the House-Senate farm bill conference committee in 2002 and marveling at how he and the National Cotton Council’s John Maguire were the only farm group representatives there....

Peterson: White House intransigence could return permanent law

Jan 23, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson says Congress may be forced to allow farm programs to revert to “permanent” law if the Bush administration remains unwilling to forge a compromise on the 2008 farm bill....

Playing with fire on veto threat?

Jan 22, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson says he’s been having “frank” discussions with Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner regarding the 2008 farm bill....

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