By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and 15 other senators are trying once again to break the stranglehold of Florida politics on agricultural trade with Cuba by passing legislation that would loosen the decades-old U.S. embargo....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Corn growers want to see a mechanism in which they can sell carbon credits on a regulated market to help offset rising production costs from newly introduced climate change legislation, the president of the National Corn Growers Association says....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s food manufacturers are not in danger of running out of sugar despite their claims to the contrary, the American Sugar Alliance said in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday (May 18)....
USDA has announced a proposed rule for applying the dairy promotion checkoff to imported dairy products, a development many years in the making that has drawn the praise of the National Milk Producers Federation....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. economy stands to lose $5 billion to $9 billion in sales to its foreign competitors over the next two years if Congress does not take steps to help solve the nation’s ongoing agricultural labor shortage....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Obama administration is continuing to push for a $500,000 cap on direct payments, a new limit on total farm program payments and elimination of cotton storage credits in its budget proposals for fiscal year 2010....
By Robert Coats and Jeffrey Hignight
Should you participate in the new optional counter-cyclical program ACRE? ...
The bill to provide a more property owner friendly eminent domain process was unanimously approved by the Texas State Senate. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
House and Senate conferees made no changes in the funding for the 2008 farm bill’s direct payments or export market promotion programs when they agreed on a concurrent budget resolution for fiscal year 2010 Wednesday (April 29)....
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) today applauded the Senate State Affairs Committee for passing Senate Bill 18, a bill to reform the process of eminent domain in the state of Texas. ...
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