The following article is from RollCall.com: by Ellyn Ferguson The package worked out between Senate leaders and the White House to avert the fiscal cliff includes provisions to…
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Washington (CNN) – Following increased pressure to pass farm legislation by the end of the year, Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow said Sunday that the House and Senate have developed a…
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The following article is from the NAFB News Service: U.S. Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy told the Senate Friday that milk market chaos will erupt if Congress doesn’t prevent that…
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by Derek Wallbank, Bloomberg Farm-state lawmakers in the House have conceded they probably won’t be able to attach a long-term extension of U.S. farm policy to any deal to…
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An offer from House Speaker John Boehner could push the federal debt limit fight to the end of next year and is breathing new life into stalled talks over the…
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by Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and the leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees met Thursday to discuss prospects for…
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by Sean Lengell, The Washington Times A multiyear farm bill that has stalled in Congress could be part of a solution to avoid the looming “fiscal cliff”…
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by Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) — The fate of farm policy, tax policy, federal program cuts and trade hang in the balance over the next…
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Dressed in a Kansas State Wildcat purple blazer, chomping gum instead of his signature cigars and cracking political jokes like a 25-year-old in a Saturday Night Live skit, a white-haired…
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MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — The stalled farm bill may cost small dairy farmers in the state hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost government subsidy payments, and it could double…