Farmers Expect Little From Bill
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By Jim Martin, Erie Times-News, Pa.  Feb. 5--Washington lawmakers are promising the 2007 farm bill will look a  lot like the 2002 farm bill.
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By The Associated Press  Instead of guaranteed payments and price subsidies for certain crops, the government should help farmers ride out lean years by creating savings accounts that could be dipped into when farm income is low, Sen. Richard Lugar said.
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The House voted Monday to protect aid to farmers who convert to environmentally sound practices. The measure, now on its way to President Bush, would block the Agriculture Department from tapping some of the funding for administrative expenses. The USDA's use of program money for overhead costs farmers about &#36;150 million a year that could help them learn farming methods that protect air, water and wildlife, said Environmental Defense spokesman Scott Faber.
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Congress wants to weave a "revenue protection" strand into the U.S. farm safety net, a signal change in policy, in the $286 billion farm bill that is one step from final passage, expected in early 2008.
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By Jenifer K. Nii Deseret Morning News  Utah farmers are offering mixed reviews of the 2007 Farm Bill proposals, rolled out this week by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
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WASHINGTON - Farmers received $2.9 billion in drought and disaster assistance tacked on to a $11.6 billion hurricane relief package that itself was tacked on to a $10 billion bill to fund military construction today.
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Much of the nation was expected to be cold Sunday, and little precipitation was forecast.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--Immigration policies are a bureaucratic mess and getting farm labor for small farmers is next to impossible.
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By Linda McKee  And the Ulster Farmers' Union has also expressed surprise that the authors of the new Review of Environmental Governance, presented to Environment Minister Arlene Foster last week, have not given a costing of the new proposals.
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Cold, hard cash is apparently not enough to quell the anger among landowners over a planned fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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WASHINGTON -- Trying to tighten the federal budget, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years.
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Ending a six-week impasse, the Senate yesterday approved a $286 billion farm bill that would authorize significant new spending for farm programs, food stamps and conservation but would make only modest changes in the nation's traditional agricultural subsidy system.
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By John Stucke, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 8--A top federal agriculture official speaking at Spokane Ag Expo and the Pacific Northwest Farm Forum said a proposed 2007 Farm Bill from the U.S. Dept.
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By Anonymous  Farmers could be seen Thursday out in fields, preparing them for crop seeding, in a few spots in the Red River Valley in what is turning into a late spring, crop-wise. But most fields in the region remain too cool for fieldwork, with frost still in much of the soil.
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The government unveils its annual budget, vowing to combat low growth in the farming sector.
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CONESTOGA, Pa. - To longtime rural residents, it's something they hardly even notice...
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The US Senate passed Friday a massive farm bill packed with consequences for global trade, but its fate remained unclear because it already has drawn a presidential veto threat.