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‘Reform’ groups make major push on payment limits

Nov 2, 2007,

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....

Harkin thinks direct payments may be target

Nov 1, 2007,

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....

Can Congress find more cuts in farm bill spending?

Oct 31, 2007,

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....

Senate committee passes ‘reform’ farm bill

Oct 26, 2007,

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....

Senate must fund conservation needs, advocates say

Oct 24, 2007,

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....

Average Crop Revenue attractive option, say supporters

Oct 23, 2007,

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....

EWG unimpressed with $5.1 billion disaster trust fund

Oct 22, 2007,

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....

Conner urges Senate to finish farm bill

Oct 19, 2007,

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)....

Sen. Harkin: Agreement on ag committee farm bill

Oct 18, 2007,

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....

Delays continue to snag Senate farm bill

Oct 9, 2007,

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....

ED poll: Public favors conservation spending over subsidies

Oct 8, 2007,

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....

Finance Committee passes tax package to help fund farm bill

Oct 5, 2007,

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....

House farm bill getting better looking every day

Oct 4, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The seemingly disorganized, chaotic “work ethic” of the House Agriculture Committee is starting to look more appealing to farm organizations....

Harkin looks to full Senate on new farm bill

Oct 3, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Sen. Tom Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, appears to be focusing on the full Senate as the primary venue for writing the new farm bill rather than hashing it out in committee....

GAO: Farm payments, crop insurance lead to ‘sodbusting’

Sep 26, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A new Government Accountability Office study says farm program payments and federal crop insurance have played a major role in the opening up of new farm land in the upper Midwest. ...

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