“As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.” YearsWellsStatesHelpingOpportunityEnergyNationsSupportDevelopmentShapesProgramRegardBillsDeterminePrioritiesFarmsFarmersInitiativeAgricultureCommodityConservationLegislationInputRenewable EnergyGreat OpportunityNebraskaCommodity Prices Author:Dave Heineman
“I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.” ThinkingShouldBigsDifferencesLandBenefitsProgramProfitEnormousFarmsFarmersAgricultureDistressingConsolidationFamily Farms Author:Barack Obama
“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand.” NeedsHandsTechnologyMilitaryPolicyPositionReturnGainsProgramStringsMassiveCommunistAggressiveCapitalistForeign PolicyAgricultureUpper Hand Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?” YearsKindGovernmentResultsRichEffectsCoupleProgramFellowsExpectedArguingBillionsIncomeAdministrationFarmsAgricultureFederal GovernmentAmerican PoliticsPaymentExceedSubsidies Author:Daniel Seligman
“The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.” MenYearsHas BeensGivenGrowsSpecialHe ManProductsSafeIdealsProgramBillsFavorsVarietyEnterpriseExpensesFarmersAgricultureFarmingCornConstructiveCropsRiceTobaccoWheatCottonSwineLivestock Author:Calvin Coolidge