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Obama sets sights on making U.S. No. 1 in alternative energy

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Republican presidential candidacy and President Obama’s comments on ethanol have thrown the corn-based ethanol industry into turmoil as it struggles to convince Congress to provide assistance to build blender pumps.

By Jerry Hagstrom , August 22, 2011

Obama heads to rural America

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s three-day Midwestern bus tour the week of Aug. 15 gave him an opportunity to invite farm and rural leaders who are likely to help him get re-elected to a White House-sponsored event. It also has given him a chance to hear directly about those issues that rural Americans say the administration has not handled very well and could pose problems in convincing them to vote for him in 2012.

By Jerry Hagstrom , August 22, 2011

Farm groups backing crop insurance, research

Farm groups backing crop insurance, research BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota farm groups say crop insurance, research and export promotion should be among the top priorities for federal spending in the next farm bill.

August 19, 2011

Conrad, Miller aim to cut farm program duplication

STOWE, Vt. — Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and budget aide Jim Miller are working on a proposal to combine the countercyclical farm payment program, the average crop revenue election program known as ACRE and disaster aid in the next farm bill, a key farm lobbyist said.

By Jerry Hagstrom , August 16, 2011

Wyoming to address EPA methane farming concerns

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming regulators temporarily tabled discussion Tuesday of proposed rules for methane farming in response to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggestions.

By Mead Gruver , August 11, 2011

Tighter farm bill schedule?

STOWE, Vt. — The passage of the law to raise with the debt ceiling and cut the federal budget deficit will not include immediate cuts to farm programs, but may lead to a rewrite of the farm bill on a tight schedule later this year rather than in 2012, key legislators told sugar growers from around the country who were meeting in Stowe, Vt., recently.

By Jerry Hagstrom , August 08, 2011

How will debt bill affect farm programs?

STOWE, Vt. — In an Aug. 3 videoconference discussion of the impact of the new debt ceiling and deficit reduction law House Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn, said:

By Jerry Hagstrom , August 08, 2011

U.S. to propose ammonium nitrate regulations

WASHINGTON — More than 15 years after a fertilizer bomb was used to blow up a government building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, the federal government is proposing to regulate the sale and transfer of the chemical ammonium nitrate.

By Eileen Sullivan , August 05, 2011

Ag proposal includes plan to cut direct payments

WASHINGTON — The battle over a bill to raise the debt ceiling still was fluid in the House and the Senate July 29, but Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., on July 29 claimed an initial victory in the budget proposal by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid., D-Nev., to cut farm spending by $11 billion over 10 years.

By Jerry Hagstrom , August 04, 2011

Hoeven: USDA OKs request for emergency haying, grazing in flood-affected counties

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven says U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has approved emergency haying and grazing for the following counties: Burke, Bottineau, McHenry, Stutsman and Ward. Hoeven earlier this month requested that the national Farm Service Agency (FSA) permit emergency haying and grazing on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land for North Dakota counties affected by severe flooding.

August 04, 2011

Simplifying rural definitions

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a visit to Kansas City, Mo., he would ask the White House Rural Council to try to reduce the number of federal government definitions of rural America and also encouraged Congress to take up the issue since rural officials have complained they have a hard time figuring out what programs they qualify for.

By Jerry Hagstrom , August 04, 2011

Vilsack announces new Biomass Crop Assistance Program project areas

WASHINGTON — One day after the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would lower the goal for cellulosic ethanol use in the nation’s energy supply because there is not enough ethanol available, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declared his faith in cellulosic energy, and announced $45 million in federal contracts for four additional Biomass Crop Assistance Program project areas in six states to expand the availability of nonfood crops to be used in the manufacturing of liquid biofuels.

By Jerry Hagstrom , August 04, 2011

Groups urge farmers to be involved to save programs in next farm bill

WASHINGTON — Farmers are apathetic about the next farm bill and need to get involved if key farm programs are going to be saved, a prominent farm and conservation lobbyist told the National Association of Conservation Districts board July 18.

By Jerry Hagstrom , July 26, 2011

Academic reports dig into government ag spending

WASHINGTON — A series of academic papers written by Montana State University professors with the theme “American Boondoggle” presented at conferences in Washington recently amounted to a “week-long hatchet job” intended to “tar and feather” farm programs, according to a top House Agriculture Committee aide-turned-lobbyist.

By Jerry Hagstrom , July 26, 2011

FSA leader outlines loan process

WASHINGTON — The Farm Service Agency makes loans to urban farmers as well as rural farmers, a key Agriculture Department official said today, facing questions from a congressional subcommittee about whether the FSA provides services to those who sell to farmer’s markets and are trying to farm in cities.

By Jerry Hagstrom , July 26, 2011

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