The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is seeking public comments on the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)....
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced changes to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the U.S. Department of Agriculture's largest conservation program for working agricultural lands....
By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University
Farmers face an ACRE of indecision both literally and figuratively in 2009....
Agriculture Committee Chair Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota has announced the Members of Congress selected to serve on the House Agriculture Committee for the 111th Congress....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
American Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman says his organization is eager to work with the new Congress and President-elect Barack Obama’s new administration to do whatever it takes to help get the country back on its feet....
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.”...
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)....
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. ...
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....
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....
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