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....
Congressman Sanford Bishop, who represents Georgia’s second district, is reminding farmers of an important upcoming deadline for disaster assistance programs....
With the hurricane season entering its peak period, Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson is reminding agricultural producers they must have crop insurance or non-insured crop disaster assistance coverage (NAP) to be eligible for compensation under the government’s disaster programs....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
That extra bit of wind you’ve felt sweeping across your fields this summer is a collective sigh of relief from U.S. farmers who have anxiously and patiently awaited a new farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Despite claims by some lawmakers to the contrary, Congress did not mandate any changes in the “actively engaged” language in the new farm bill’s payment limit reforms, National Cotton Council leaders are saying....
By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University
Victor Davis Hanson doesn’t like the American farm support system — or its European counterpart....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Passage of the latest farm bill brought a sigh of relief for most people involved in agriculture, but for farmers it creates some changes that may require reworking of the farm financial plan....
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senators Tom Harkin of Iowa and Richard Lugar of Indiana have introduced legislation aimed at addressing one of the valid criticisms of ethanol production — the lack of an economical way to move the renewable fuel to major markets....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s not often that the CEOs of the nation’s largest airlines and the leaders of some of the biggest cotton merchandising firms come down on the same side of an issue. ...
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. ...
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