- IANR Update
- Nebraska wheat harvest underway
- Beef Checkoff Update
- CCC Rates Announced for July
- CSP Signup Expected Soon
- Extension of RFS-2 Comment Period Concerns NBB
- EPA Approves California’s Long-Requested Pollution Rule Waiver
- Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards
- Senate Plans to Move on Climate Change with Lessons Learned from House
- Gregory Geortz new Wyoming FSA Director
- Biden announces $4 billion in rural broadband service
- 4-H Animal science event
- Free Private Well Testing
- USDA, KDA stress food safety during holiday weekend
- Branded funds available
- Interview on ACRE
- ACRE Webinar Draws More Than a Thousand
- Soy Transportation Coalition publishes Semi Weight Analysis
- Webster County Fair is near
- Kansas Wheat Harvest Report
- Environmental officials to discuss sludge probe
- 3 community colleges sue Kan. Board of Regents
- Vilsack Announces New Focus, Approach to Food Security
- Study Shows Spraying Herbicides on Invasive Weeds Not Necessarily Good Idea
- Tyson Responds to R-CALF, Not Meeting Request
- Corn-Fed Beef Trade Mission Wraps Up in Korea
- Growth Energy Says USDA Crop Report Dismisses Myths
- Governor Dave Heineman interview
- Bill Bullard interview
- Recent Reports Thrill Nation’s Corn Growers
- Jon Bruning interview on Republican River ruling
- Central Platte NRD conducts tour
- Greater Corn Supplies Could Lead to Higher Ethanol Blend Rate
- Water referee says Neb. owes Kan. $10,000
- Farm Bureau Asks USDA for Immediate Help
- Polansky moves to Kansas FSA Director
- Kansas wheat harvest moves northward
- Obama team members to fan out on summer rural tour
- Yet more waiting for Neb., Kan. in river dispute
- Rocky Mountain Pack string in Crawford for the 4th!
- Derrel Carruth named Wyoming Rural Development Director
The first week of Congresses’ lame duck session was widely heralded as being important to the life-line of the economy. But, nothing happened as efforts to pass a second stimulus package failed. The House did pass a bill that the white House and Republicans didn’t like. The only bill that did pass Congress was an extension of unemployment benefits.
The bill that failed to pass the Senate contained a number of agriculture-related items, including 171 million for modernization of the Farm Service Agency’s computer system. The bill also contained disaster assistance for southern farmers and money for implementation of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission provisions contained in the 2008 farm bill.
As for the Big Three automakers, they are likely spending quality time together, working on a proposal to satisfy Congress, so they can qualify for a “bail out”. The leaders of GM, Ford and Chrysler are due back in Washington Monday to make their case.
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