By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The new payment limit rules being proposed as amendments to the 2007 farm bill could mean more traditional U.S. crops being grown overseas and a wider U.S. agricultural trade deficit, Sen. Blanche Lincoln said....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate leaders have agreed to allow members from both parties to offer a maximum of 20 amendments each to the farm bill so the Senate can complete work on the measure before it adjourns for the year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed another motion to limit debate and the number of amendments that can be offered to the 2007 farm bill and bring the measure to the Senate floor....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A presidential veto of a farm bill would be “a tragic policy error and a monumental political error,” says Larry Combest, former chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Seems like just the other day farm organizations were saying they would be perfectly happy if Congress would simply change the date on the 2002 farm bill to 2007 and call it done....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate leaders appeared to be edging closer to an agreement on the number of amendments that could be offered for the new farm bill as Congress returned to Washington from its Thanksgiving break....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Congress could still complete work on a new farm bill in January if the Senate can quickly resolve its amendment issues when it returns from the Thanksgiving recess, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee said....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As the Senate prepares to vote on a new farm bill, one thing is clear — we have way too many “farm bill experts” weighing in....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Some of the non-stop criticism of farmers and farm programs by media outlets in recent years might be a little easier to take if the tone wasn’t so condescending....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate fell five votes short of cutting off debate on the farm bill, a move Democratic leaders said was necessary for Congress to complete work on the legislation and send it to the president by year’s end....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a cloture motion on the 2007 farm bill as hopes faded that the Senate would act on the legislation before Congress began its Thanksgiving recess....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“Like two warring camps.” That’s how one observer described relations between Congress and the administration as the Senate began its debate on the 2007 Food and Energy Security Act....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Presidential advisers who said the Senate Agriculture Committee’s version of the new farm bill should be vetoed because it raises taxes and uses accounting gimmicks should have checked the figures on the administration’s farm bill first, Senate Democrats said....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
AgJobs farm labor legislation is unlikely to make the final cut in the 2007 farm bill legislation under consideration by the U.S. Senate, predicts Irvine, Calif.-based Western Growers....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Vivyan Adair was on welfare when she entered North Seattle Community College in 1986. Although she was a high school dropout and the single mother of an infant daughter, Adair persevered, eventually earning a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1997....
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