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WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012- The House Committee on Agriculture passed the Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 2012 with a voice vote along party lines today.

Chairman Frank Lucas announced another series of hearings on the 2012 Farm Bill to begin next week in Washington, D.C

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-OK, will recommend that budget reconciliation cuts required by the House Budget Resolution be met entirely by reforms, elimination of loopholes and the reduction of waste, fraud and abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

President Obama is leveraging the tax deadline to raise awareness that not everyone pays their fair share of taxes and push for what he calls the “Buffett rule” proposal.

President Barack Obama and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced this afternoon that a free trade agreement with Colombia will go into effect on May 15.

The House Agriculture Committee scheduled a vote for April 18 on a package of policy changes to current U.S. farm law to satisfy its reconciliation directive

Farmers and ranchers will have to get a prescription from a veterinarian in order to use antibiotics in cattle

Eighty-one groups submitted a letter to U.S. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers (KY), asking to prohibit the use of funds to implement the new National Ocean Policy (NOP).

In its report on the federal crop insurance program released today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended that in order to reduce crop insurance program costs, “Congress should consider limiting premium subsidies for individual farmers, reducing subsidies for all farmers, or both.”

The consistent increase in U.S. farmland values is likely to level out in the coming years, but not through a market “bust,” said a panel of farm credit experts at the Farm Foundation Forum.