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The article reports that opponents of current farm policy are going to get their chance to have their proposals debated. U.S. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson said that he expects the Agriculture General Farm Commodities Subcommittee to debate and possibly vote on the alternatives that will include the bill introduced by Representatives Ron Kind and Jeff Flake which would end all crop, dairy and sugar programs and replace them with spending on rural development.

Reports on United States House Agriculture General Farm Commodities & Risk Management Subcommittee member Calvin Dooley's comments on the Budget Committee's deadline for the Agriculture Committee to rewrite the commodity title of the 1996 farm bill. Timetable for the rewrite; Dooley's comments on the U.S. Senate's stance toward the rewrite.