Independent cattle producers and other livestock organizations have long questioned the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's "firewall" segregating policy work from checkoff work. (Logo courtesy of the NCBA)
Audit Questions NCBA Expenses
Group Acknowledges Mistakes But Defends Internal Firewalls
Tue Jul 27, 2010 02:34 PM CDT
An audit report requested by the Cattlemen's Beef Board found instances in which money meant to go to fund beef checkoff activities at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association was actually being used for policy work. The report comes as NCBA and the Beef Board gear up for their summer meetings later this week in Denver.
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Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln said Thursday there is ample precedent for the White House to administratively fund the $1.5 billion in agricultural disaster aid. (DTN file photo)
Lincoln Defends Disaster Package
Ad-Hoc Payments Could be Higher than SURE Program
Thu Aug 5, 2010 06:36 PM CDT
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., thinks the White House has the legal authority to approve a disaster package and doesn't think that her plan unfairly rewards farmers compared to the permanent disaster program created in the 2008 farm bill.
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Rules on how to calculate payments for disasters, such as the 2008 Iowa spring flood, continue to be revised. But that means some growers have been asked to make refunds and others have had potential payments cut after they signed applications. (DTN file photo by Scott R Kemper)
SURE Complaints Mount
Farm Program Flirts With Own Disaster
Mon Aug 2, 2010 11:43 AM CDT
Farm Program Flirts With Own Disaster he experiment with SURE -- the complex revenue-based disaster program authorized by the 2008 Farm Act -- results in on-again, off-again payments, errors and inequities. Some growers receive princely payments and their neighbors with nearly identical circumstances receive nothing.
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Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and his wife Christie tour the Agriculture Building at the Iowa State Fair on Tuesday after Vilsack held a forum on opportunities in rural America. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)
Scrutinizing Direct Payments
Iowa Farm Bureau Looks at Other Options Ahead of 2012
Tue Aug 17, 2010 03:21 PM CDT
With a large federal deficit and the need to find more resources for programs that could help young farmers, members of the Iowa Farm Bureau are looking at trading in the direct-payment program for a better farm revenue protection program.
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Jason Clay, with the World Wildlife Fund, spoke to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association about the need to use agricultural land more efficiently. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)
Curbing Ag's Resource Needs
 Beef, Other Ag Sectors Must Produce More With Less Subscriber Content
Mon Aug 2, 2010 07:43 AM CDT
At the National Cattlemen's Beef Association summer meeting, the group held a panel discussion for the general membership on the environmental challenges beef production faces, as well as research countering some misconceptions about the cattle industry.
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I'm issuing my own cease-and-desist order this morning against NCBA and R-CALF over the silly season that has begun between the two groups since last Friday's livestock competition meeting.
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The report from the FDA on Iowa egg producer Jack DeCoster's operation "speaks for itself," Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Tuesday to reporters in a weekly call.
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Sen. Charles Grassley said Tuesday he doesn't expect either congressional hearings or lawsuits to delay an expected rule from the EPA that would allow E-15 to go into effect.
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As I left Fort Collins on Friday I wondered, what would Walt Whitman write.
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