USDA willing to work with Congress on budget baseline
USDA officials indicated recently they would work with Congress to somehow preserve 2012 farm bill budget baseline that could potentially be lost through the renegotiation of the Standard Reinsurance Agreement. The comments, delivered to CongressDaily on the record by a USDA spokesperson and in less official terms to Hill leaders, came days after 10 commodity groups […]
Will the next farm bill cause civil war in rural America?
The first hearings of the 2012 farm legislation were held last week, and as expected, they revealed the Barack Obama administration wishes to take money from farm programs and move it to other priorities. The Secretary of Agriculture pressed the issue with farm-state lawmakers by suggesting rural communities need more jobs and rural economic development […]
