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Iowa’s flood disaster is causing some to call for the release of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for haying and grazing.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, called on congressional leadership Wednesday to step in and resolve the disputes that have stalled the progress of the farm bill.

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, officially neutral in the Democratic presidential race, this morning said superdelegates at his party’s convention should be stripped of their potential kingmaking status.

He plans to be involved in an effort to do that.

“I’m very uncomfortable with this whole idea of superdelegates,” Harkin said on a conference call. “The reason it [...]

Some Iowa political heavy-hitters joined forces in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to push for passage of the renewable fuels provisions in the 2007 Farm Bill.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, was joined by Iowa Republican colleague Sen. Chuck Grassley and Iowa Gov. Chet Culver for a press conference in which they highlighted the importance of [...]

The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry passed its Food and Energy Security Act Thursday, sending the five-year, $288 billion legislation to the full Senate for a debate expected next week. The bill is commonly known as the 2007 Farm Bill.
Senate agriculture committee chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, held a conference call with [...]

Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, was thwarted Wednesday, Oct. 24th in an attempt to shift environmental funding in the 2007 Farm Bill to more small and medium-sized livestock operations.
The passage of an amendment Wednesday to the 2007 Farm Bill is a blow to groups that are displeased with the fact that the federal government [...]

UPDATE: Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, released the "Chairman's Mark" of his proposed 2007 Farm Bill Tuesday. The mark includes all of the titles of the proposed Farm Bill, with the exception of the Conservation Title, which is not yet completed. The draft may be viewed [...]

As the 2007 Farm Bill continues to slowly slog its way through the Senate, some farmers and agribusiness operators are becoming anxious to know what kind of federal farm programs they’re going to be dealing with next year.

The bill, which covers a wide variety of federal initiatives from commodity and rural development programs to the [...]

Federal food safety regulations have been put to the test in recent years, with an increasing number of instances in which people have been sickened by food-borne illness.

Spinach, lettuce, peanut butter and ground beef are just a few of the foods that have been recalled in recent years because of contamination by dangerous pathogens. And [...]