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Washington DC -May 14- The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the conference report for the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, a groundbreaking bill that invests in improved nutrition, conservation, renewable energy and farm programs and includes significant reforms.
Washington DC -May 14- Following is a statement from USDA Secretary Ed Schafer regarding House passage of the Farm Bill Conference Report.
Washington DC -May 13- NACD President John Redding , a cotton, peanut and pine tree producer from Monroe, Georgia, today issued the following statement as Congress considers the 2008 Farm Bill Conference Report:
Washington DC -May 13- The House Agriculture Committee has released an extensively detailed Farm Bill report that Conference Committee members agreed to last week.
The Farm Bill report can be viewed at:
Washington DC -May 13- Tight supplies and strong demand mean prices for corn and soybeans are likely to remain high for the foreseeable future, according to American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) economic analysis of two recent government reports.
Washington DC -May 13- The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) said Monday that while the House and Senate Farm Bill Conference Committee voted down key provisions that included meaningful competition reform, language remains intact that supports the full implementation of mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) and interstate meat commerce by state-inspected processing plants.
Washington DC -May 9- Following is a statement from USDA Secretary Ed Schafer regarding new Farm Bill legislation being put to the vote next week in Congress:
Washington -May 9- Following is a statement from American Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman regarding the bipartisan farm bill package agreed to by House and Senate negotiators:
Washington DC - May 8 - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and of the Senate-House conference committee on the new farm bill, today announced a final farm bill conference agreement with principal negotiators at a press conference on Capitol Hill. The agreement will lead to a formal conference report, which will then be passed by the Senate and House before being sent to the White House.
Following are excerpts of Harkin’s remarks at the press conference followed by a detailed summary of the Farm Bill.
Washington DC -May 8- Members of the U.S. House-Senate Farm Bill Conference Committee today moved one step closer to approving a farm bill. Principle negotiators announced they have reached an agreement on the new farm bill.
Washington DC -May 6- The mandate by Congress to utilize a key food ingredient as the dominant input for biofuels has inextricably coupled food to fuel prices, driving up costs for consumers and affecting the economy, said AMI President and CEO J. Patrick Boyle in testimony submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Washington DC -May 6- National Farmers Union was part of a coalition of 13 organizations in a letter sent to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer and Ranking Member James Inhofe outlining a number of principle priorities within federal climate change legislation.
Washington DC -May 5- Congress might have enough votes to overide a threatened veto of the Farm Bill should it come to that, Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-North Dakota), told WashingtonView Radio in an exclusive interview at the U.S. Capitol.
Pomeroy, a member of the House Agriculture Committee AND House Ways and Means Committee and a key player in the marathon negotiating sessions, said the Farm Bill has bipartisan support, and he hopes the President avoids a showdown with Congress and signs the bill into law.
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Washington DC -May 1- The National Pork Producers Council today commended the Bush administration for its decision to lend assistance to U.S. pork producers to help them weather the current economic crisis in the hog business.
Washington DC -May 1- National Farmers Union President Tom Buis today recognized that high food prices are adversely affecting American families, especially those in the low and middle class, but said record high energy prices, rather than farm commodity prices, play the biggest role in grocery price increases.