US farmers like crop subsidies over green pay: poll
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Farmers are not ready to abandon   crop subsidies for the "green" payments that some reformers say   should be the new focus of the $20 billion-a-year U.S. farm   program, a survey of growers showed on Wednesday.
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Anticipating a fight in Congress over President Bush's proposed farm cuts, new Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Thursday that large operations are reaping too big a share of government subsidies.
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GENEVA - The United States has signaled its willingness to limit trade-distorting farm subsidies to a level of between $13 billion and $16.4 billion, breathing life into struggling world trade talks, the World Trade Organization's lead farm trade negotiator said yesterday.
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(WHITE HOUSE) - President Bush said his nominee for Secretary of Agriculture is &quot;a faithful friend to America&#39;s farmers.&quot;.
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By Katy Guest  In Nicaragua this summer, they had much the same problem with the bean harvest as we did in Britain. As the sun scorched the fields and prayed-for rain failed to fall, tender legume crops failed. In Britain, we feared that Bird's Eye might have to put up its prices.
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The World Trade Organisation confirmed two separate rulings Wednesday outlawing farm subsidies paid by the United States to cotton farmers and by the European Union to its sugar producers.
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Most U.S. voters think the country is on the wrong track and remain deeply unhappy with President George W. Bush and Congress, but still feel good about their finances and optimistic about the future, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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The United States has agreed to cut its maximum agricultural subsidies in a "significant step" towards advancing negotiations on a new global trade pact, the mediator of the farm talks said on Thursday.
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VALLEY CITY, N.D.Grain farmer Allan Skogen is just the kind of efficient, market-savvy farmer Congress had in mind in 1996 when it sought to revolutionize U.S. agriculture by giving growers more freedom to decide what to plant while phasing out traditional subsidies.
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Large farm operations are reaping too big a share of government subsidies, new Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Thursday, defending President Bush's desire to curb the payments by billions of dollars over the next decade.
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The United States should abandon its   $20 billion-a-year farm subsidy system in favor of programs   that protect farmer income through insurance policies and land   stewardship, a blue-ribbon panel said on Wednesday.
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By Elmer Ploetz  In 2007, the fortunes of many Western New York farmers won't be as dependent on local weather as on the political climate in Washington.  That's where the politicians will be turning their attention to immigrant labor - again.
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The farm bill passed last month by the House doesn't go far enough in limiting which farmers should be eligible to receive government subsidies, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said.
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Â· Farmers rally to back presidential programme  Â· Leadership blames clashes on US interference
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By Tom Shaw, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 17--State lawmakers continue to propose ways of keeping money in the pockets of landowners whose property is in the so-called greenbelt program.   State Sen.
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The Bush administration yesterday proposed ending farm subsidies for an estimated 80,000 wealthy individuals as part of a broad plan that would close loopholes and cut traditional farm programs by $4.5 billion over the next 10 years.
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Latin America's agricultural giant scored two trade victories Wednesday against rich countries' farm subsidies after the World Trade Organization agreed with Brazil that its farmers have been hurt by government assistance for U.S. cotton farmers and European Union sugar beet growers.