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Re: summary of farm bill?

The House Ag. Committee wants to report a bill out of committee this summer and is on-track to do that.  Despite an earlier desire to address only the commodity side, the House Ag. Committee recently solicited input on conservation issues and will hold hearings in the next week or so.

That said, the Senate Ag. Committee reportedly wants to deliberate fully on commodity and conservation and is targeting Aug. of 2002 to wrap-up the Farm Bill.

The new Farm Bill is likely to become a done-deal sometime in-between.

The conservation agenda contains:  Continuation of CRP, WRP, EQIP, WHIP and FIP we well as Swampbuster and Sodbuster; and, potential new programs including a 'pay for conservation' program, short-term set-aside (to idle some cropland for 3 years or so) and Grassland Reserve Program (long-term agreement protection for prairie and other key grasslands).

On a related note, bills have been introduced in the House to reauthorize WRP and CRP.  

Bill 

>>> leeprairie@austin.rr.com 05/21/01 01:39PM >>>
Does anyone know of a good general summary of the Farm Bill and the changes
underway? 

lee stone
Bastrop, TX 
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