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And so the final battle begins...
The deal is done, Congress is gearing up to pass the Farm Bill. Are there enough votes to override the President's promised veto?

Rural Issues Forum
The cost of ignorance
Those paying for college today take on a great deal of debt to prepare for the next phase of their lives. Education is expensive, but ignorance costs us all a great deal more!

Innovations
Stine Seed pursuing efforts to improve soybean yields
Dr. Bill Eby, Director of Soybean Research for Adel, Iowa-based Stine Seed, says the company is pursuing research across a wide range of areas in an effort to improve soybean yields. But he says progress comes with consistent effort year-in and year-out, not in one great leap forward.

Managing for Profit
Strategies to use when wet weather forces late planting
With delayed planting from the wet spring comes the need for efficiency. University of Missouri Extension Agricultural Engineer Bill Casady says producers need strategies to help make up for lost planting days.

U.S. Ag Secretary Ed Schafer held a teleconference to blast the House-Senate Farm Bill Conference Report. Not long after, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad and Senate Ag Committee Chairman Tom Harkin held a press conference of their own to defend the new farm bill.  More »


Livestock
Nebraska Beef Council dietician honored
The Nebraska Dietetic Association late last month honored the Nebraska Beef Council's Kaiti Roeder as the 2008 Young Dietician of the Year. And Roeder tells Brownfield she loves her role in promoting Nebraska beef.
Humane Society of the U.S. targets auction markets 
The Humane Society of the U.S. has released video taken during its own investigations at four livestock auction markets. The video, shot in the last month undercover at markets in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas and New Mexico, shows downer cattle in various states of distress or neglect.
USDA/Government
Schafer disparages, senators defend new farm bill
U.S. Ag Secretary Ed Schafer held a teleconference to blast the House-Senate Farm Bill Conference Report. Not long after, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad and Senate Ag Committee Chairman Tom Harkin held a press conference of their own to defend the new farm bill.
"No one ever gets everything they want" 
Wisconsin Democrat and House Ag Committee member Steve Kagen says the farm bill from the conference committee is good for the agricultural economy, good for people and good for our health.
Markets
Old crop soybean stocks smaller than expected 
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, domestic 2007/08 soybean stocks have dwindled quicker than anticipated.
U.S. winter wheat crop tops 1.77 billion bushels 
The United States Department of Agriculture forecasts the 2008 U.S. winter wheat crop at 1.778 billion bushels, up sharply from the 2007 total of 1.515 billion bushels.