Items Tagged with 'Freedom to Farm'

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts has been involved in just about every consequential piece of agricultural legislation in the last four decades. But the bill he thinks may have the most lasting impact is the 1996 farm bill known as Freedom to Farm (or “Freedom to Fail” by its detractors). The bill formally ended the system of production controls and commodity subsidies first imposed during the Depression.

Michael Torrey of Michael Torrey Associates, writes a tribute to Kansas State University professor Barry Flinchbaugh, who died last week at the age of 78.

Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh, an economist who influenced decades of farm policy, died Monday morning.

Former Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican who won admirers from both political parties during a 36-year Senate career, died Sunday from complications of a chronic neurological disorder, according to the nonprofit Lugar Center, which he had founded.