Oct 3, 2008 10:00 AM
A bipartisan group of Cotton Belt Senators and House members, led by Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Representatives Etheridge (D-N.C.) and Emerson (R-Mo.), has written Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer to stress that it is inappropriate and unnecessary for USDA to cause serious disruptions in current farming operations by proposing unwarranted changes in the way it makes actively-engaged-in-farming determinations....
Oct 1, 2008 9:44 AM, By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Congress has passed bipartisan legislation aimed at righting a USDA misinterpretation of the farm bill base acre provision....
Sep 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. ...
Sep 24, 2008 10:15 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The chairman and two high-ranking members of the Senate Agriculture Committee are seeking to clarify the 2008 farm bill so farmers can make changes in their farming operations and continue to receive farm program payments....
Sep 22, 2008 9:33 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers who have been frustrated by USDA’s refusal to allow them to reconstitute their operations — no matter how small — to continue to receive farm program payments on all their acres may soon get some relief....
Sep 16, 2008 10:21 AM, 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....
Sep 11, 2008 9:25 AM
Congressman Sanford Bishop, who represents Georgia’s second district, is reminding farmers of an important upcoming deadline for disaster assistance programs....
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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