The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A group of farm-state senators led by Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin is asking Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to stop trying to re-write the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 through the regulations implementing the new farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Southeast farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation....
The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 eliminates the three-entity rule for farmers, it also makes it easier for a spouse to become eligible for payments. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In an unusual case of farm bill déjà vu, Congress voted yesterday to override President Bush’s second veto of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The ink isn’t dry on the final version of the 2008 farm bill (President Bush was expected to veto the full bill passed by the Senate June 4 within a few days, and the House and Senate were expected to vote to override once again.)...
Having passed the Senate on a 77-15 vote on June 5, the full farm bill is headed to President Bush where it is expected to be vetoed yet again. ...
By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University
As gas and other oil-based energy costs rise, so do the calls for domestically produced bio-based products. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In mid-May, with the farm bill still unfinished and President Bush promising to veto the latest version, several prominent agriculture economists gave the new legislative proposals a quick study. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Just as he’d promised for weeks, on May 21, President Bush vetoed the near $300 billion farm bill that Congress passed in a landslide vote. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Any doubts that farm organizations supported the 2008 farm bill conference report were laid aside Wednesday (May 21) when more than 1,000 of them sent a letter to the House and Senate urging them to override the president’s veto....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
On Wednesday morning (May 21), just as he’d promised for weeks, President Bush vetoed the nearly $300 billion farm bill passed overwhelmingly by Congress....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Not all the country’s environmental and conservation groups are opposing the farm bill conference report, the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate was expected to pass a new farm bill by a wide margin on Thursday morning and that’s exactly what happened. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The House has passed the farm bill conference report by a vote of 318-106, giving farm organizations a major victory over the national news media and environmental and social activist groups who waged a war against it....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Environmental and social action groups were making a last-ditch effort to derail the 2008 farm bill conference report as the House of Representatives and the Senate prepared to debate and vote on the measure....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
On May 8, the farm bill still wasn’t finished but was close enough that the main political players lined up to backslap and announce the latest provisions. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer says the farm bill conference report Congress will consider in the next few days would cost taxpayers another $20 billion above baseline spending for the long-awaited legislation....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farm bill negotiators and major farm organizations have begun an intense effort to muster the 290 House votes needed to override a promised veto of the 2008 Food, Conservation and Energy Act conference report....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Congressional negotiators have reached final agreement on a 2008 farm bill conference report, setting up a possible showdown with the White House over the five-year legislative package....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Is the long, national ordeal over the 2007; oops, now the 2008 farm bill nearing an end?...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Republican senators reportedly are asking for a meeting with President Bush to discuss his latest criticism of the ongoing efforts to reach a compromise agreement on the 2008 farm bill....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
By now, the stop-and-start nature of farm bill negotiations must have conferees close to whiplash. ...
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