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Crop groups urge market-oriented policy
Leaders of the House and Senate Ag Committees were sent a letter Friday from leading crop organizations asking them to include market-oriented farm policy measures when they enter into conference committee for a final farm bill.
The American Soybean Association (ASA), the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) and the U.S. Canola Association (USCA) say they would not support any bill that contains a risk-management program tying planted acres to fixed reference or target prices.
It appears conferencing on the farm bill won’t take place until September –after Congress returns from its August break.
The farmers are whining again. I say eliminate the farm bill completly and let the farmers farm the soil and not the govement and the taxpayers