By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced he is extending the sign-up deadline for the 2009 direct and counter-cyclical payment program from June 1 to Aug. 14 to give producers more time to analyze their options under the 2008 farm bill....
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is extending the sign-up period - until April 10, 2009, - for floodplain easement assistance, a component of the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program....
Calling current private property protections “inadequate” and “tilted,” Texas Farm Bureau State Director Richard Cortese called on state lawmakers to reform Texas eminent domain law....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The first skirmish in the 2009 version of the battle over payment limits has been held, and farmers appear to have won....
In response to the discovery of nearly $50 million in payments to ineligible farmers, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have begun efforts to ensure that high-income individuals and entities who request USDA payments meet income limits set forth in the 2008 Farm Bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When the Obama administration’s fiscal 2010 budget proposals reach Congress, the agricultural portion will likely face a wall of bipartisan opposition....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Former President Gerald Ford once said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.”...
Senate Democrats have unveiled a “rural agenda” for the 111th Congress and a Web site highlighting issues important to rural communities and promoting policies that will benefit rural areas....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Criticism continues to rain down on the Obama administration’s proposal to reduce government spending by phasing out direct payments to agribusinesses with more than $500,000 in annual sales, capping payments to individual farmers at $250,000 and ending cotton storage payments. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said USDA will begin making $145 million in direct operating loans to farmers as one of the first steps in distributing the $28 billion earmarked for the Department in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009....
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