Mar 11, 2010 1:29 PM, By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
On Wednesday (March 10), the Senate passed the “American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010.” ...
Mar 9, 2010 10:43 AM, By Shawn Wade, Plains Cotton Growers
Two months into the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program (SURE) sign up period, it appears most of the program's implementation kinks are finally on their way to being ironed out by the USDA Farm Service Agency....
Mar 9, 2010 10:35 AM, By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A panel of agricultural commodity association representatives waded into some deep issues, including cap and trade legislation, water use restrictions, crop insurance, trade restrictions and biofuels during the Texas Alliance for Water Conservation conference in Muncy, Texas....
Mar 5, 2010 11:22 AM
The House Committee on Agriculture approved two bills for floor consideration and adopted the annual budget views and estimates letter, which outlines the Committee's budget recommendations for the federal agencies and programs under its jurisdiction for fiscal year 2011....
Mar 2, 2010 11:21 AM, By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers may have yet another chance to win meaningful disaster assistance for their 2009 waterlogged crops, the chairman of the National Cotton Council told producers attending the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show....
Feb 22, 2010 11:08 AM, By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Following nearly a decade of litigation, a $1.25 billion agreement has been struck between the USDA and a class consisting of black farmers. Congress is now being asked to provide the needed funds and several prominent farm-state politicians seem keen to do so....
Feb 11, 2010 11:04 AM
The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced a special initiative of $50 million, of which Texas will be receiving more than $4.4 million, to provide financial assistance for conservation practices to growers transitioning to organic farming or who are already certified for organic agriculture under new provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill....
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News from the Farm BillACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 11, 2008 10:01 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: Several provisions delayed until 2009Jul 8, 2008 9:38 AM The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue.... USDA issues advance direct paymentsJul 8, 2008 9:21 AM America's farmers will receive up to $1.15 billion in 2008 advance direct payments that began July 7.... |
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