Mr Millar is the immediate past chairman of the Australian Cotton Growers Research Association, has been a director of the Australian Cotton Industry Council, and also recently represented the Australian cotton industry at the International Federation of Agricultural Producers Young Farmers Conference. Mr Millar is the immediate past chairman of the Australian Cotton Growers Research Association, has been a director of the Australian Cotton Industry Council, and also recently represented...

Mr Millar is the immediate past chairman of the Australian Cotton Growers Research Association, has been a director of the Australian Cotton Industry Council, and also recently represented the Australian cotton industry at the International Federation of Agricultural Producers Young Farmers Conference. Mr Millar is the immediate past chairman of the Australian Cotton Growers Research Association, has been a director of the Australian Cotton Industry Council, and also recently represented...

The California Farm Bureau says that should benefit especially the state's producers of cotton, wheat, rice, dairy foods and beef products. In a speech to county government officials, Schwarzenegger said California needs to invest in additional water efficiency, flood control, storage and conveyance. The goal, he said, is to find what he called the "sweet spot" that brings agreement on the proper mix of strategies to address chronic water problems. Canned vegetables labeled as "low salt or...

Without reauthorization, farm policy will revert to permanent statues established in 1938 and 1949 laws which are drastically different from current programs. For example, permanent law does not authorize counter-cyclical payments or decoupled direct payments and imposes acreage allotments and marketing quotas for wheat and cotton. While the 2007 Farm Bill reauthorization remains stymied in the Senate, farmers and ranchers throughout the nation are already feeling the negative effects of...

Democrats and Republicans on the Agriculture Committee, backed by crowds of lobbyists, are pulling out all the stops to pass a $288 billion, five-year farm bill, expanding an archaic system of subsidies that government economists say is rapidly shifting billions of dollars to the largest farm operations. And still other senators mock the opponents of the bill that would send $32 billion over five years mostly to large farmers of a few crops during one of the biggest grain price booms on record.

The largest increases in the number of hired farm workers from last year occurred in the Southern Plains ( Oklahoma and Texas), Appalachian I (North Carolina and Virginia), Lake (Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), and Appalachian II (Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia) regions. The largest increases in the number of hired farm workers from last year occurred in the Southern Plains ( Oklahoma and Texas), Appalachian I (North Carolina and Virginia), Lake (Michigan, Minnesota, and...