Oct 7, 2008 9:32 AM
Cotton Belt congressional members have joined their colleagues and the U.S. cotton and textile industry in a call to broaden a key textile import monitoring program....
Oct 1, 2008 10:07 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The National Grain and Feed Association says forcing managed index and pension funds to “take delivery” on commodities such as wheat may be one way to solve the lack of convergence on Chicago Board of Trade futures contracts....
Sep 25, 2008 9:45 AM, By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Trouble in U.S. and world financial markets is weighing on the cotton market, according to market analysts speaking at the Ag Market Network’s September teleconference....
Aug 28, 2008 9:30 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Talk about your no-win situations. That’s what the Bush administration found itself in the Doha Round negotiations that collapsed when China and India demanded the United States make “unacceptable” concessions on market access and farm subsidies....
Aug 5, 2008 9:45 AM, By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The House failed last week to pass the Commodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act of 2008, which would have provided more transparency for the commodity markets....
Jul 17, 2008 9:22 AM
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer will lead a bi-partisan Congressional delegation to Cartagena, Colombia, on July 18. ...
May 23, 2008 8:06 AM, By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
According to officials with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, there is little economic evidence that commodity prices are being systematically driven by speculators....
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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