By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The senator who helped give U.S. farmers Freedom to Farm is introducing legislation that would once again overturn most of the counter-cyclical payment and marketing loan provisions of the 2002 farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The new average crop revenue (ACR) option and a permanent disaster program may be attracting much of the attention, but the Food and Energy Security Act of 2007passed by the Senate Agriculture Committee has plenty of other features....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Calling it the “last chance for real farm bill reform,” 71 conservation, environmental and anti-poverty groups sent a letter to members of the U.S. Senate, urging them to vote for the Dorgan-Grassley payment limit amendment when the farm bill comes to the floor....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the Senate expected to take up a new farm bill the week of Nov. 5, farmers were growing hopeful the legislation could be enacted in time for them to incorporate it into their plans for the 2008 crop year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Tom Harkin says he expects at least one more attempt will be made to divert money from direct payments to conservation, rural development and nutrition programs when the Agriculture Committee-passed farm bill goes to the Senate floor....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“Buy federal crop insurance.” For years, that’s been the mantra of the ag committees in Congress. If farmers could be persuaded to buy enough coverage, the argument went, Congress would no longer have to pass ad hoc disaster assistance bills....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry voted unanimously to report a farm bill that includes a new average crop revenue or ACR option for row crop producers and greatly expanded conservation, energy and nutrition programs....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, went to a lot of trouble to find additional funding for conservation programs, such as his own Conservation Stewardship Program, in the 2007 farm bill he was scheduled to present to the Senate Agriculture Committee today....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s beginning to look like farmers will have the option of participating in a revenue-based, counter-cyclical payment program in the next two or three years no matter which version of the 2007 farm bill Congress passes....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The latest farm bill-related report to come out of the Environmental Working Group tackles the Senate Finance Committee’s $16 billion Heartland, Habitat, Harvest and Horticulture Act of 2007. The provision calling for a $5.1 billion permanent disaster aid trust fund has Ken Cook, EWG president, especially exercised....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner said he is “grateful” that the Senate Agriculture Committee has reached an agreement on a new farm bill and could schedule a mark-up session on the legislation as early as next week (Oct. 24)....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The discovery of $3 billion to $3.5 billion in savings from a slightly altered version of the revenue counter-cyclical program that’s been making the Washington rounds has helped put the Senate’s 2007 farm bill back on track....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It sounded too good to be true, and it was. The Senate Agriculture Committee was scheduled to meet shortly after the Senate Finance Committee passed its $16-billion agricultural tax package to consider a new farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A nonprofit environmental group says the results of a public opinion poll shows taxpayers would rather spend money on conservation programs than on farm subsidies. The poll says respondents would have a more favorable view of Congress if its members made such a switch....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate Finance Committee has adopted an agricultural tax package that would fund a standing disaster relief program and create new conservation, rural development and energy-related tax credits....
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