Owners and operators of farms with 10 or fewer base acres now have the opportunity to receive payments for the 2008 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Before deciding whether you want to sign up for the farm bill’s new ACRE program, or stick with the counter-cyclical program, be sure to do your homework, says John Robinson, Texas A&M Extension economist for cotton marketing....
Agriculture Under Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment Mark Rey has announced landowners have enrolled more than 2 million acres in U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wetlands Reserve Program, a significant contribution toward increasing the Nation's wetlands....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s the issue that just won’t go away. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture hasn’t exactly been on the front burner of the 2008 presidential elections. ...
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....
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....
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. ...
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....
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....
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