The 2008 farm bill (Food Conservation and Energy Act of 2008) became law on May 22, and included a strong conservation component that translates into millions of dollars in technical and financial assistance for California farmers, ranchers, forest managers and organizations to protect natural resources on private lands....
Alan Nulliner, executive director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Arizona, announced on July 11 that the agency will allow producers who would otherwise be ineligible for the new disaster assistance programs to become eligible by paying a fee as required by the 2008 farm bill....
Farmers have begun receiving $1.15 billion in direct payments for the 2008 crop year, USDA officials announced. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 eliminates the three-entity rule for farmers, it also makes it easier for a spouse to become eligible for payments. ...
USDA officials announced they have begun signup for the 2008 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program, one of the actions required under the 2008 Food, Conservation and Energy Act....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In an unusual case of farm bill déjà vu, Congress voted yesterday to override President Bush’s second veto of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The ink isn’t dry on the final version of the 2008 farm bill (President Bush was expected to veto the full bill passed by the Senate (June 4) within a few days, and the House and Senate were expected to vote to override once again.)...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Just as he’d promised for weeks, on May 21, President Bush vetoed the near $300 billion farm bill that Congress passed in a landslide vote. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Any doubts that farm organizations supported the 2008 farm bill conference report were laid aside Wednesday when more than 1,000 of them sent a letter to the House and Senate urging them to override the president’s veto....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
On Wednesday morning (May 21), just as he’d promised for weeks, President Bush vetoed the nearly $300 billion farm bill passed overwhelmingly by Congress....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Not all of the country’s environmental and conservation groups are opposing the farm bill conference report, the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For the first time in history a federal farm program will contain a major specialty crop provision and the leaders of related agricultural organizations in California and Arizona are grinning from ear to ear....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate was expected to pass a new farm bill by a wide margin on Thursday morning and that’s exactly what happened. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The House passed the farm bill conference report by a vote of 318-106 yesterday (May 14), giving farm organizations a major victory over the national news media and environmental and social activist groups who waged a war against it....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Environmental and social action groups were making a last-ditch effort to derail the 2008 farm bill conference report as the House of Representatives and the Senate prepared to debate and vote on the measure....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
On May 8, the farm bill still wasn’t finished but was close enough that the main political players lined up to backslap and announce the latest provisions....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer says the farm bill conference report Congress will consider in the next few days would cost taxpayers another $20 billion above baseline spending for the long-awaited legislation....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farm bill negotiators and major farm organizations have begun an intense effort to muster the 290 House votes needed to override a promised veto of the 2008 Food, Conservation and Energy Act conference report....
The Nation's Food Bank Network reported the results of a new survey that found 100 percent of food bank respondents have seen an increase in the number of clients served within the past year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Congressional negotiators have reached final agreement on a 2008 farm bill conference report, setting up a possible showdown with the White House over the five-year legislative package....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Is the long, national ordeal over the 2007; oops, now the 2008 farm bill nearing an end?...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Republican senators reportedly are asking for a meeting with President Bush to discuss his latest criticism of the ongoing efforts to reach a compromise agreement on the 2008 farm bill....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
By now, the stop-and-start nature of farm bill negotiations must have conferees close to whiplash. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
House and Senate negotiators, defying a White House demand they pass a one-year extension of the farm bill, appear to have reached agreement on a spending framework for a new five-year farm law....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
House-Senate conferees approved three major initiatives for the 2008 farm bill this week although they seemed to be making little progress toward passage of the full legislation, congressional sources said....
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