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....
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....
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....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Members of the nation’s largest farm organization are asking Congress and the Bush administration to quickly enact a comprehensive new farm bill that maintains an adequate safety net for farmers and ranchers....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Memo to all those groups who say they want to make even more changes to the 2008 farm bill when a House-Senate farm bill conference committee convenes later this month: Forget it....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
House and Senate ag committee conferees face four options, including extending current farm law, as they work toward a farm bill reconciliation....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I’ve considered the editors of the Washington Post to be many things over the years, but I never took them to be sore losers....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Some people see a glass half empty; others, one half full. Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner, clearly a member of the former camp, thinks it’s time for Congress to seize on a glass full of high prices and “reform” farm programs....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The biggest concerns for rice producers and others attending the 2007 USA Rice Outlook Conference in Orlando in early December was what a new farm bill would look like and whether or not it would be in place by the time they’re deciding on their crop mix for 2008....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner says the farm bill passed by the Senate fails to strengthen the farm safety net, relies on budget “smoke and mirrors” and continues to send subsidies to people among the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s farm organizations are gearing up for a battle in the House-Senate farm bill conference committee they hope will be the last major hurdle between them and final passage of the Food and Energy Security Act of 2007....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate passed the Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 by a 79-14 vote Friday, ending months of contentious debate and behind-the-scenes parliamentary maneuvering over the $286-billion, five-year legislation....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, fell four votes short of the supermajority they needed for an amendment aimed at imposing much stricter limits on farm program payments as the Senate inched closer to approving a new farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson is preparing language to continue certain farm bill programs in legislation Congress is expected to pass before the end of this year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
An amendment that would have eliminated direct payments and the non-recourse loan and replaced them with an expanded crop insurance program became the first to go down in defeat as the Senate began debating on and voting on changes to the 2007 farm bill....
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