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Record U.S. crop losses

WASHINGTON — In a demonstration of the up-and-down nature of the crop insurance industry, payments to farmers for crop losses in 2011 have totaled $9.1 billion so far, the highest in American history, according to charts released recently by the U.S Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency.

By Jerry Hagstrom , February 08, 2012

Calculating costs

WASHINGTON — All farm major programs combined — crop insurance, subsidies and conservation — will cost only about $221 billion over the next 10 years, comprising only 18 percent of Agriculture Department spending, according to statistics released by the Congressional Budget Office as it released its annual budget estimates.

By Jerry Hagstrom , February 06, 2012

Farm bill talks move forward

WASHINGTON — Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., told Agweek on Feb. 1 that she will hold four hearings in February and March in anticipation of bringing the farm bill to the floor before the House acts.

By Jerry Hagstrom , February 06, 2012

Mini Devils Lake?

Mini Devils Lake? DAZEY, N.D. — Jim and Pat Broten are living with a “mini-Devils Lake,” a progressive, rising threat to everybody in Lake Township.

By Mikkel Pates , February 06, 2012

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If you were an urban congressman ...

If you were an urban congressman ... Planting, harvesting and marketing a crop isn’t easy. But it’s child’s play compared with writing a new farm bill.

By Jonathan Knutson , February 06, 2012

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Conrad unveils Crop Revenue Guarantee Program

Conrad unveils Crop Revenue Guarantee Program WASHINGTON — Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., is preparing to introduce a farm bill commodity title that would guarantee farmers 90 percent of crop revenue on their individual operations, a top aide says.

By Jerry Hagstrom , January 30, 2012

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Farmers, farm groups told they need more unity

FARGO, N.D. — Supporters of federal crop insurance need to show greater unity, particularly as work on the 2012 farm bill intensifies, Jeff Harrison and Bob Haney say.

By Jonathan Knutson , January 23, 2012

Sen. Conrad proposes to simplify crop insurance

FARGO, N.D. — Federal crop insurance is essential to U.S. agriculture, but the insurance can be made simpler and easier to implement to use, Sen. Kent Conrad, D.N.D., said Monday.

By Jonathan Knutson , January 16, 2012

AFBF's farm bill proposal

HONOLULU —The new farm bill proposal that the America Farm Bureau Federation has been promoting in Washington would make higher payments when crop producers experience deeper losses, while the programs that other commodity groups have promoted would make smaller payments more frequently, Farm Bureau lobbyist Mary Kay Thatcher explained in a session to delegates on Jan. 8.

By Jerry Hagstrom , January 16, 2012

Vilsack addresses Farm Bureau

Vilsack addresses Farm Bureau Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman don’t agree on all the issues facing agriculture, but in speeches at the Farm Bureau convention last week, the two made the same points on farm bill spending and its schedule for consideration.

By Jerry Hagstrom , January 16, 2012

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AFBF ends support for direct payments

Delegates to the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Honolulu ended their support for the $5 billion annual direct payments program that crop farmers get whether prices are high or low on Jan. 10, but the new policy they passed reflected continued differences between regions and commodities that will make it difficult for the nation’s largest general farm group to develop policy on a new farm bill.

By Jerry Hagstrom , January 16, 2012

Ag Committee chairman: ‘Horrendous’ pressure in upcoming farm bill discussions

FARGO — House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., faces a tough task of justifying and delivering an adequate farm program — anything comparable to the expiring, popular 2008 farm bill — in the midst of a tightening budget. He discussed the next steps in the farm bill discussion in front of a full Fargo conference room on Thursday as business and agriculture leaders urged him to continue programs and prevent overreach from federal regulators.

By Mikkel Pates , January 12, 2012

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Farm bill roundtable highlights budget woes

Farm bill roundtable highlights budget woes FARGO, N.D. – Agricultural leaders are worried the safety net for farm income will be trampled by federal budget warriors in what one official described a “sprint that’s turned into a marathon” in the political effort to replace the 2008 farm bill.

By Mikkel Pates , January 09, 2012

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Crop insurance supplants subsidies in farm bill proposal

WASHINGTON — The nation’s farm subsidy payments will give way to an expanded crop insurance program under a bipartisan plan that is expected to be submitted to the Congressional deficit committee, Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson says.

By Jim Spencer , November 07, 2011

‘A monumental shift’ in farm policy

WASHINGTON — While leaders of the Senate and House agriculture committees fend off statements that no farm bill is necessary when farmers are so prosperous, they and their staffs — particularly their staffs — are expected to work through the weekend to try to complete a farm bill proposal for the supercommittee in charge of deficit reduction by Nov. 1, aides told Agweek in a series of interviews last week.

By Jerry Hagstrom , October 31, 2011

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