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Despite receiving previous congressional authorization through the farm bill, the future of a network designed to provide basic outreach to stressed agricultural workers remains tenuous.
The Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network is designed to provide basic behavioral health care for agricultural workers. The care, primarily in the form of telephone hotlines such as the Iowa-based [...]

Politicians don’t usually get noticed for what they write in the Farm Bureau’s semimonthly newsletter, but some of their responses to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s candidate survey might be news to you. Sen. John McCain said he would exempt agriculture from his carbon cap-and-trade program. Sen. Barack Obama said he supported a [...]

Voters concerned about federal agriculture policies will gravitate toward Barack Obama, said Nebraska senator Ben Nelson at the Iowa State Fair Thursday.

The U.S. Senate successfully voted to override the presidential veto of the new farm bill Thursday. The veto override passed by a vote of 85-13, far exceeding the necessary two-thirds majority.

Somebody in Congress really fouled up the farm bill Wednesday.
Just hours after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to override the veto of the farm bill by President Bush, lawmakers were scrambling to fix a clerical error that could derail any hopes of seeing the bill become law this week.

President Bush kept his promise when he vetoed the new farm bill Wednesday. It is almost certain that the veto will be overridden by Congress.

Congress officially sent the new farm bill to President Bush Tuesday.

The U.S. Senate sent the new farm bill to President Bush Thursday, passing it by a veto-proof vote of 81-15.
The bill was passed by the House Wednesday by a margin of 318-106. The overwhelming vote of support in both houses of Congress virtually ensures that the bill will soon become law, despite the Bush administration's [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the new farm bill Wednesday by an overwhelming majority vote of 318-106.

President Bush will veto the new farm bill, says U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer.