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  • May 17, 2012
    Article

    Specialty crop group petitions EPA on herbicide-resistant crops

    A coalition within the U.S. specialty crop industry has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS) for dicamba- and 2,4-D-tolerant crops, saying more study of the technologies is needed....More
  • May 15, 2012
    Commentary

    T. Boone Picken’s energy gospel part 2: natural gas as a bridge to the future

    “Natural gas will do everything we want it to do,” says T. Boone Pickens. “It’s 130-octane fuel, it’s 25 percent cleaner than oil — and we have an abundance of it."...More
  • May 15, 2012
    Article

    Access to credit 
critical for farmers

    Two witnesses at a congressional hearing, a beginning farmer from Nebraska and an urban farmer from Ohio, explained how important it is for agricultural producers to have access to credit to both start and support their operations because of the risks inherently involved with farming....More
  • May 15, 2012
    Article

    Anticipation builds for action in Senate, House on farm bill

    Anticipation is building for 2012 farm bill action in the coming weeks, with reauthorization before the current bill’s expiration on Sept. 30 looking possible. 

...More
  • May 15, 2012
    Article

    Senators call for limits on crop insurance premium subsidies

    In a letter to Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Ranking Member Roberts (R-Kan.), Sens. Coburn (R-Okla.) and Durbin (D-Ill.) have called for a $40,000 payment limit to be imposed on crop insurance premium subsidies....More
  • May 15, 2012
    Article

    NCIS unveils second in video series, spotlight on Texas drought

    As the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management prepares to hold a hearing later this week, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) today released the second in an ongoing series of educational videos on crop insurance....More
  • May 11, 2012
    Article

    Foreign persons must report U.S. agricultural land holdings

    USDA Texas Farm Service Agency (FSA) Acting Executive Director James B. Douglass reminds foreign persons with an interest in agricultural lands in the United States that they are required to report their holdings and any transactions to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture....More
  • May 10, 2012
    blog

    An eminent domain fight, a Pigford sign-up deadline and catfish inspections

    Folks tend to get upset when land they own is forcefully taken over by outside interests claiming eminent domain. Government projects, infrastructure needs, and economic health may be legitimate reasons to invoke the law but it doesn’t leave those whose lands are taken any less aggrieved. And what if it isn’t the government that takes your land or land-use rights, but a private company?...More
  • May 8, 2012
    Article

    Eleven more streams to be removed from Federal impaired streams list in Okla.

    Voluntary actions taken by Oklahoma’s farmers, ranchers and other landowners in partnership with the Oklahoma Conservation Commission, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and local conservation districts to reduce non-point source pollution in water has led to the recommendation that eleven Oklahoma streams be removed from the federal list of “impaired” water bodies and that over 150 additional targeted streams and stream segments now not be listed for any water quality impairments....More
  • May 8, 2012
    Article

    History is made by Texas Small Farmers and Ranchers CBO

    A vision of having a state headquarters’ office and training center has become a reality for the Texas Small Farmers and Ranchers Community Based Organization (TSFR/CBO)....More
  • May 7, 2012
    Article

    State, federal authorities prepare for active fire season across Southwest

    Government officials making preparation for another active fire season, hoping the preparations won't be necessary....More
  • May 4, 2012
    Article

    Biodiesel board asks Congress to reinstate tax incentive

    American Soybean Industry partner the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) called on Congress Thursday to reinstate the biodiesel tax incentive to avoid further disruption to an emerging American industry that is creating jobs across the country while diversifying U.S. energy supplies....More
  • May 2, 2012
    Article

    Peanut growers call for 'producer choice' crop program

    Texas farmer and president of the Western Peanut Growers Association Jimbo Grissom recently told a Senate panel that U.S. peanut producers support two provisions for a new farm bill — an equitable risk management tool and a “producer choice” crop program....More
  • May 2, 2012
    Article
    Delta Farm Press

    Will House Agriculture Committee rectify Senate farm bill flaws?

    After a farm bill passed out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on April 26, focus has shifted to the House version. That’s especially true in the South, where agriculture leaders expect the House bill to be friendlier to the region than what will soon hit the Senate floor....More
  • May 1, 2012
    blog

    Farm kids learn valuable lessons from their labor

    The United States Department of Labor was correct in reversing its decision to impose severe restrictions on the tasks young people may perform on family farms....More
  • Apr. 27, 2012
    Article

    2012 farm bill passes out of committee, heads to full Senate

    On Thursday afternoon, the Senate Agriculture Committee completed its markup and passed the 2012 farm bill. It now heads to the full Senate....More
  • Apr. 26, 2012
    Article

    Senate farm bill draft released, promptly criticized in South

    Reaction of commodity and farm groups to the April 20 release of a Senate Agriculture Committee draft farm bill has been mixed. Several sectors of Southern agriculture are especially critical of the proposed legislation....More
  • Apr. 24, 2012
    Article

    Commentary: Farm bill now

    I have spent much of my time over the past month in Washington visiting with members of Congress and other policy makers about the importance of the 2012 farm bill....More
  • Apr. 24, 2012
    Article

    What is it that’s so difficult about the farm bill?

    Everyone in agriculture knew there would be substantial cuts in the new farm bill....More
  • Apr. 24, 2012
    Article

    Stabenow farm bill would end direct payments, strengthen crop insurance

    Sen. Debbie Stabenow releases draft of 2012 farm bill, pledges deficit reduction and stronger crop insurance-based safety net for producers....More
  • Apr. 18, 2012
    blog

    Crop insurance, conservation cuts counterproductive

    Natural disaster is part of the risk farmers face every year. But the nation’s ability to produce adequate food and fiber cannot be overstated. And the importance of the investment government can make to assure they have affordable insurance coverage and assistance with conserving natural resources cannot be over-emphasized. Cutting these two programs now would be foolhardy in light of what happened last summer....More
  • Apr. 17, 2012
    blog

    Farm bill debate starting to heat up

    While it’s a long shot that U.S. agriculture will see a new farm bill by the time the old one expires later this year, the information gathering process is already underway, with the House Agriculture Committee announcing a number of hearings across the United States this spring....More
  • Apr. 12, 2012
    audio

    Investigation continues into fake USDA letters

    The Agriculture Department's Inspector General's office is still investigating those letters farmers have been getting — letters claiming to be from USDA....More
  • Apr. 12, 2012
    Article
    Delta Farm Press

    H-2B guest worker wages increased by 32 percent

    Crawfish plants that employ temporary guest workers as crawfish peelers could be forced to pay hourly wages that are on average 32 percent higher than last year under a new wage calculation methodology adopted by the United States Department of Labor....More
  • Apr. 12, 2012
    Article
    Southeast Farm Press

    Crop insurance No. 1 priority in new farm bill

    U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, leaders of the U.S. Agriculture Crop Insurers Association and the directors of all U.S. grain associations agree that the single most critical part of the upcoming farm bill has to be crop insurance....More
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