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. ...
Congress passed a measure designating uninsured sorghum and other crops planted behind failed first crops as ghost crops, meaning that the crop’s revenue will not reduce a farmer’s Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE) payment....
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....
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....
Congressman Sanford Bishop, who represents Georgia’s second district, is reminding farmers of an important upcoming deadline for disaster assistance programs....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Despite claims by some lawmakers to the contrary, Congress did not mandate any changes in the “actively engaged” language in the new farm bill’s payment limit reforms, National Cotton Council leaders are saying....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The refusal of China and India to drop a proposal that would have allowed so-called developing countries to increase tariffs on imported food has led once again to a collapse of the Doha Round WTO negotiations....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Conservation Reserve Program acreage will not be released early without penalty, the USDA announced July 29....
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