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Three Bs Impacting the 2012 Farm Bill

The impact of a yearlong discussion in Washington about the 2012 Farm Bill is now up in the air following the November elections, according to Purdue University Agricultural Economist Roman Keeney. When the new Republican House majority takes up the farm bill issue, farmers should expect lawmakers to focus on three major areas: Brazil, budget and baseline.

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  • May 16, 2013
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    House Ag Committee Approves Farm Bill 


    Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Ranking Member Collin Peterson (D-MN) issued the following statements after the House Agriculture Committee approved the farm bill, H.R. 1947, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act of 2013, by a large, bipartisan vote of 36-10. Committee members also adopted, by voice vote, an en bloc amendment....More
  • May 13, 2013
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    House Ag Committee Drafts Farm Bill

    On May 10, the House Ag Committee marked up their version of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM) Act of 2013. It is nearly identical to the bill marked up last summer....More
  • May 10, 2013
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    Senate Marks Up the 2013 Farm Bill

    With the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act, the era of direct payments is over. Instead of subsidies that pay out every year even in good times, the bill creates risk management tools that support farmers when they are negatively impacted by weather disaster or market events beyond their control....More
  • May 9, 2013
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    7 Questions About the Farm Bill

    Farm Bill markup likely will begin soon in both the Senate and House Agricultural committees. Much of the focus for traditional program crops will be around three programs: a revenue program, a target price program and a supplemental crop insurance program. While the exact nature of the programs will depend on negotiations, what is almost certain is that the programs' rationale will be risk management. Given a risk management focus, farm bill negotiations will need to debate and somehow resolve the following seven questions....More
  • Mar. 1, 2013
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    Vilsack Champions Agriculture, Farmers, Rural America, Stresses Need for Farm Bill, End to Sequester 4

    Secretary of Agriculture spoke to a group of over 1,500 farmers and ranchers at Commodity Classic in Kissimmee, Fla., this morning. He championed America's farmers for their willingness to conserve and be sustainable as well as their efforts to build rural America....More
  • Feb. 20, 2013
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    ASA Joins Fellow Farm Groups in Opposing Lopsided Farm Program Cuts

    In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this morning, the American Soybean Association (ASA) joined 11 other national farm groups in opposing disproportionate cuts to farm programs as part of the recently introduced American Family Economic Protection Act advanced by Senate Democrats to avert cuts under the sequestration set to take effect March 1.
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  • Jan. 29, 2013
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    Farm Bill Likely to Take Back Seat

    Congress seems unlikely to pass a new five-year farm bill any time soon with talks on the federal budget and the U.S. debt ceiling likely to be lawmakers’ main focus in coming months. The deadline for raising the U.S. debt ceiling apparently will be pushed back to May 19 as the U.S. House of Representatives passed a temporary suspension of that ceiling last week and the Senate is expected to pass the same measure this week....More
  • Jan. 8, 2013
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    Farm Bill Extension for 2013

    As part of the congressional agreement that was passed to avoid the fiscal cliff, the 2008 Farm Bill was extended through the 2013 crop year, and will now expire on Sept. 30, 2013. The extension of the current farm bill was viewed as a big disappointment to several members of Congress from both parties, as well as by many agricultural organizations and other groups that were hoping for reform in ag policy with a new bill....More
  • Jan. 4, 2013
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    Farm Bill Extension: What's In, What's Out

    There is time-honored political axiom that says there are two things that you never want to see being made. One is sausage. The other is legislation. That was certainly the case as the Senate and House furiously dealt with the fiscal cliff, the dairy cliff and farm policy. All were woven together Monday and Tuesday and it seems no one is happy with the outcome so that means it must be as fair as it can get....More
  • Jan. 2, 2013
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    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the Food, Farm and Jobs Bill Extension 1

    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement on the Food, Farm and Jobs Bill that Congress extended for nine months....More
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