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05/15/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-05-15060000 :29:36 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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05/15/2008 - Farm Bill Passes House It appears the U.S. House has sent a strong message to the President. Wednesday afternoon the House passed the Farm, Nutrition and Bioenergy Act of 2008 by a vote of 318 to 106. That means that 75 percent of those voting were in favor of the legislation. Read more... |
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05/15/2008 - Farm Bill Passes House It appears the U.S. House has sent a strong message to the President. Wednesday afternoon the House passed the Farm, Nutrition and Bioenergy Act of 2008 by a vote of 318 to 106. That means that 75 percent of those voting were in favor of the legislation. Read more... |
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05/14/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-05-14060000 :29:36 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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05/14/2008 - President Will Veto Farm Bill In a statement yesterday, President George W. Bush said if the farm bill reported to the House and Senate makes it to my desk - I will veto it. Mr. Bush said he is deeply disappointed in the conference report as it falls far short of the proposal my Administration put forward. Read more... |
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05/13/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-05-13060001 :28:06 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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05/13/2008 - Senate Focus on Energy Prices Today (Tuesday), the U.S. Senate is expected to receive an amendment to temporarily halt the flow of expensive crude oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is expected to present the proposal from Senate Democrats. Read more... |
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05/09/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-05-09060000 :28:42 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 5-9-08 . Read more... |
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05/08/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-05-08060000 :32:04 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 5-8-08 . Read more... |
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05/09/2008 - Farm Bill Representatives and Senators, all farm bill conferees, stood side-by-side Thursday afternoon as they gave details of the final Farm Bill conference agreement and praised it as a great Farm Bill for America’s farmers and consumers. Read more... |
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05/07/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-05-07060000 :26:06 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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05/08/2008 - Farm Bill Agreement Congressional negotiators will announce a final farm bill conference agreement today at 1:30 pm Washington time. The location will be the Longworth House Office Building. Read more... |
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05/07/2008 - Farm Bill Meetings Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Chuck Conner has been consistent in repeating the stance of the White House, threatening the farm bill if certain goals are not reached. But, now the White House, not USDA, has threatened the farm bill directly. The White House says it costs too much. Read more... |
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05/06/2008 - Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-05-06060001 :27:13 Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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05/05/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show 2008-05-05060000 :31:30 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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05/05/2008 - New Bill Has Issues Even though the Chairman of the Senate-House Farm Bill Conference Committee, Tom Harkin, says – we are basically done – eight issues remain to be resolved. These issues include: adjusted gross income limits, ending efforts to privatize food stamps, and assessing dairy promotion import duties. Read more... |
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05/01/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-05-01060000 :27:58 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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04/30/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-04-30060000 :28:08 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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05/01/2008 - Farm Bill Farm bill conferees are touting a complicated crop subsidy scheme to make sure wealthy farmers do not collect government payments. The new farm bill proposal also includes a series of other changes that leading House-Senate negotiators made earlier this week. Read more... |
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04/30/2008 - Farm Bill Update After telling farm broadcasters attending the NAFB Washington Watch Tuesday morning that a tentative Farm Bill agreement between House and Senate negotiators actually cost 18-billion dollars above-baseline rather than 10 billion and “pretty much” ducked critical reform issues, Ag Secretary Ed Schafer, accompanied by Deputy Secretary... Read more... |
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04/29/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-04-29060000 :26:44 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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04/29/2008 - FSA Releases Farm Information As required by a February 15th decision of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Farm Service Agency has released sets of complex and statistically detailed databases from FSA files about farming operations throughout the United States. Read more... |
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04/28/2008 - WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer 2008-04-28060000 :27:04 WSMI Morning Farm Show with Rita Frazer . Read more... |
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04/28/2008 - Farm Bill Wheels Rolling Friday started out with President George W. Bush signing the farm bill extension. That gives farm bill conferees another week – through May 2nd – to come to an agreement on a farm bill. But, by afternoon, word was out that negotiators had an agreement on ag taxes and farm spending. Read more... |
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04/25/2008 - Another Farm Bill Extension The Senate and the House have passed a one-week extension of the present farm bill. If the President signs the extension the present program will be extended to May 2nd. Read more... |
