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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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