Without reauthorization, farm policy will revert to permanent statues established in 1938 and 1949 laws which are drastically different from current programs. For example, permanent law does not authorize counter-cyclical payments or decoupled direct payments and imposes acreage allotments and marketing quotas for wheat and cotton. While the 2007 Farm Bill reauthorization remains stymied in the Senate, farmers and ranchers throughout the nation are already feeling the negative effects of...

Democrats and Republicans on the Agriculture Committee, backed by crowds of lobbyists, are pulling out all the stops to pass a $288 billion, five-year farm bill, expanding an archaic system of subsidies that government economists say is rapidly shifting billions of dollars to the largest farm operations. And still other senators mock the opponents of the bill that would send $32 billion over five years mostly to large farmers of a few crops during one of the biggest grain price booms on record.

The largest increases in the number of hired farm workers from last year occurred in the Southern Plains ( Oklahoma and Texas), Appalachian I (North Carolina and Virginia), Lake (Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), and Appalachian II (Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia) regions. The largest increases in the number of hired farm workers from last year occurred in the Southern Plains ( Oklahoma and Texas), Appalachian I (North Carolina and Virginia), Lake (Michigan, Minnesota, and...

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The fading greenback will probably strengthen cotton and other exports from the Rolling Plains as foreign countries put their growing buying power to work, said Stan Bevers, professor and extension economist for the Texas Cooperative Extension office in Lockett. us Digg Furl WASHINGTON Producers of oil, cotton and other cash crops from North Texas could benefit from a weak dollar expected to become punier in the global marketplace after Wednesday s interest rate cut. The fading greenback...

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