Dec 22, 2008 9:39 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA is publishing an interim final regulation that will require individuals and entities to make significant contributions of (1) capital, equipment, land or a combination of those and (2) personal labor or active personal management to be considered “actively engaged in farming.”...
Dec 22, 2008 9:32 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced farmers can begin signing up for the 2009 Direct and Counter-Cyclical Payment program today (Dec. 22)....
Dec 17, 2008 10:28 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President-elect Barack Obama was expected to nominate former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to be the 30th secretary of agriculture later today. ...
Nov 24, 2008 9:40 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A broad coalition of food industry, environmental and other “grassroot” organizations are calling on President-elect Barack Obama and Congress to enact legislation phasing out subsidies for ethanol production....
Nov 21, 2008 9:30 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has introduced legislation aimed at establishing stronger standards of openness, transparency and integrity in the trading of swaps and other over-the-counter financial derivatives that have helped bring the nation to the brink of the worst recession in decades....
Nov 11, 2008 9:34 AM
Owners and operators of farms with 10 or fewer base acres now have the opportunity to receive payments for the 2008 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program....
Oct 23, 2008 9:17 AM, By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Before deciding whether you want to sign up for the farm bill’s new ACRE program, or stick with the counter-cyclical program, be sure to do your homework, says John Robinson, Texas A&M Extension economist for cotton marketing....
More Legislation News Articles
News from the Farm BillHouse votes to suspend base acre provisionSep 26, 2008 9:14 AM 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. ... Senators, ag secretary spar over ACRE provisionsSep 16, 2008 10:21 AM, By Forrest Laws 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.... ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 15, 2008 9:34 AM, By Forrest Laws 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. ... Farm bill, flooding: Economist Daryll RayJul 9, 2008 9:57 AM, By David Bennett After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Southeast farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation.... |
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