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....
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. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mike Johanns resignation as secretary of agriculture to run for a senate seat from Nebraska could be seen as a blow to the Bush administration’s efforts to influence the 2007 farm bill. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate Agriculture Committee members appear to be at loggerheads on new payment limit language in the 2007 farm bill, a situation that could mean any new rules would be debated on the Senate floor. ...
If you follow the national media, you’ve seen the reports on how the current administration has been one of the most business-friendly in decades....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farm-state congressmen have received their first look at legislation that may help the Senate bridge the gap between the budget baseline and the “wish lists” of farm and conservation groups for the 2007 farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The idea of providing counter-cyclical payments to farmers when both prices and yields are low appears to be gaining momentum as the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry turns its attention to writing its version of the new farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA announced that upland cotton and peanut producers have begun receiving the final counter-cyclical payments for their 2006 crops. The Department will not issue CCP payments to producers of other crops for 2006. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For months, farm groups have been gearing up for a fight over the more contentious sections of the new farm bill. Direct payments, counter-cyclical programs, payment limits all were expected to challenge....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the USDA and House having weighed in on the next farm bill, University of Arkansas graduate student Jeff Hignight has calculated how Arkansas rice farms would fare under both proposals.<...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If the “devil is in the details,” farmers and their organizations will be doing a lot of boning up on the House-passed Farm, Nutrition and Bioenergy Act of 2007 while Congress takes its August recess....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the House farm bill proposal passed, the Senate proposal coming and Congress in recess, USDA head Mike Johanns visited RFD-TV studios in Nashville, Tenn., to again push the Bush administration proposal and jab at alternatives....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Shortly before heading into August recess, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson spoke to reporters for nearly an hour....
By Forrest Laws and David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson says farmers like the idea of closing a “loophole” that allows U.S. earnings of foreign-owned corporations to be taxed at a lower rate to help pay for the new farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers concerned about the new payment limit rules in the House version of the 2007 farm bill should not pin their hopes on getting a better deal in the Senate....
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