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Uptake Low For New U. S. Support Plan

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Just eight per cent of farmers signing up for U. S. crop subsidies opted for a new federal program designed to protect grower revenue, the Agriculture Department said Oct. 20. Some 128,620 farms enrolled in the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program for their 2009 crops while 1.54 million choose to receive traditional supports, which
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Ranchers Can Access To CRP Lands

The U. S. Agriculture Department says it will extend emergency use of Conservation Reserve land for North Dakota livestock producers facing losses from recent flooding. USDA said the emergency use of reserve land would be extended from April 30 to May 15. Conservation Reserve land is usually off-limits to livestock, but the department said extending
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U. S. Farm-Cut Fight Far From Over

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The fight to cut U. S. farm subsidies is just beginning in Congress despite a committee vote against a $250,000-a-year cap on payments, a limit supported by the White House, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says. “Let’s see where things end up,” Vilsack said during an interview with Reuters March 27. He said deficit hawks in
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Fewer Wheat/ Double-Crop Soy Sowings — Usda

Plantings of the eight major U. S. field crops are expected to be down in 2009 due to fewer wheat seedings and less double-crop soybean acreage, the Agriculture Department’s chief economist said April 1. USDA’s annual prospective plantings report indicated there will be a decline of 7.1 million acres, or 2.8 per cent, from 2008
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U. S. Senate Panel Rejects $250,000 Farm Subsidy Cap

The Senate Budget Committee rejected a proposed $250,000-a-year limit on farm subsidies March 26 in a rebuff to reformers and the Obama administration. President Barack Obama proposed a $250,000 payment cap in his fiscal 2010 budget plan. It was part of a package of farm cuts estimated to save nearly $16 billion over 10 years
Crops

U. S. Farmland May Be Carbon Sink

The Conser vat ion Reserve, which pays owners to idle fragile U. S. farmland, could become one of the largest carbon sequestration programs on private land, an Agriculture Department official said March 25. Some farm-state lawmakers say efforts to reduce greenhouse gases could result in a payoff in rural America because some agricultural practices, such
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U. S. NFU Opposes Subsidy Cuts

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The Obama administration should drop its proposal to end the direct payment subsidy to large U. S. farmers, the National Farmers Union said March 9, pointing to a slump in dairy and crop prices. The White House proposal has few supporters among farming groups and farm-state legislators. It calls for a three-year phase-out of direct
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Subsidy Debate Weighs Farmers Versus Children

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U. S. lawmakers will need to choose between supporting rich farmers or feeding more hungry children amid a slumping economy and surging deficit, U. S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said March 2. Vilsack said he already has heard some questions and concerns about the Obama administration’s plan to redirect subsidy payments for large farmers into
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USDA nominee Vilsack impresses lawmakers

U. S. Senator Herb Kohl on Jan. 7 said he was impressed with Tom Vilsack, president-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the U. S. Agriculture Department, and expected the former Iowa governor to be confirmed easily by the Senate. “I’m confident this will be a man who will do his job very well,” Kohl, a

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