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Byline: Bradley D. Lubben When the next session of Congress convenes in January, it will face a number of familiar agricultural issues on the agenda, but it will do so [...]

Byline: Bradley D. Lubben When the next session of Congress convenes in January, it will face a number of familiar agricultural issues on the agenda, but it will do so [...]

Byline: Bradley D. Lubben When the next session of Congress convenes in January, it will face a number of familiar agricultural issues on the agenda, but it will do so [...]

Byline: Bradley D. Lubben When the next session of Congress convenes in January, it will face a number of familiar agricultural issues on the agenda, but it will do so [...]

Byline: Jacqui Fatka It's hard to not feel disheartened by actions on Jan. 6 no matter what side of the aisle you find yourself on. But at the end of [...]

Congress passed a farm bill in June 2008, providing a net US$289 billion over five years for farm and nutrition programs. The measure will expand nutrition activities such as food stamps and school lunches for low-income students, and set new limits on farm subsidies.

The effect of the passage of the farm bill being discussed in the United States Congress, on the profitability of agriculture in Georgia is described. The decline in the subsidy provided to farmers in the United States is discussed.

The question whether the increasingly influential Democratic senator Kent Conrad will be successful in including his agenda in the upcoming farm bill is discussed.

Unconventional lobbies from alternative-energy advocates to animal rights groups will join the farm lobby consisting of corn, wheat, cotton, soybeans and rice farmers, as Congress writes the 2007 farm bill. These groups desire to be involved in negotiations regarding subsidies and incentives in order to permanently reshape the debate about the nation's agricultural policies, since they believe farming is also about human health, environment, animal welfare, international trade and energy conservation.

The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, which inaugurated a new, market-oriented era for American production agriculture, arguably is the most outstanding accomplishment of the reform-minded 104th Congress. [...]

KANSAS CITY--Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, in a Nov. 10 interview with Milling & Baking Nears, said he believed he would be able to sit down with Representative Pat Roberts [...]

THE START OF A NEW CONGRESS, like the start of the new year, is an important time to count blessings and dream big for the coming year.The 116th Congress began [...]

IMPORTANT CHOICES LOOM with respect to the future of both the sugar and dairy support programs as work advances in Congress on the 1990 farm bill - the legislation that [...]

Bush administration plan for farm bill unveiled WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. - The process of enacting successor legislation to the Food Security Act of 1985 began in earnest last week with [...]

A major difference between the US Senate and the House of Representatives versions of the 2007 farm bill is the conservation security program portion. However, the House version leaves the commodity title almost the same as the 2002 farm bill. The countercyclical program on the new farm bill will be based on a farm's revenue and not on when market prices fall below target to set off a payment.

A focus on new farming sector bill that will come up in the United States Congress is presented.

Byline: Hembree Brandon It's interesting, says Rep. Rick Crawford, that there are 535 members of Congress who consider themselves experts on farm policy, yet 'few want to be on the [...]

Adding to the chorus of displeasure over the government shutdown and lack of a new farm bill, on Friday the Agricultural Council of Arkansas sent letters to President Obama and [...]

Byline: Forrest Laws Do you want to do away with food stamps or have a new farm bill? That's the question congressional leaders have to address between now and Sept. [...]

The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 is the most dramatic change in United States agricultural policy since the 1930s. FAIR ended acreage control programs that, in various [...]

Title I -- Agricultural Market Transition Programme Contract Payments: Producers who participated (or had certified acreage) in wheat, feed grain, cotton and rice programmes in the past five years can [...]

PITY America's farmers. Frost, hail, snow, drought, aphids, weevils: and now, Hurricane Newt. Desperate to reduce deficits, Mr Gingrich and his Republican Congress have set to work chopping agricultural subsidies, [...]

Two farm bill options would meet the congressional goal of reducing farm program costs by $13.4 billion over the next seven fiscal years: the Freedom to Farm Act and a [...]