date:Dec 10, 2012
ll on hold. The expiry of the latest bill means several conservation programmes have been frozen, as have export loan guarantees.
This years harvest is long in, so the effects so far have been muted. But if there is no farm bill by the start of the next agricultural year, the governments price-support scheme will automatically revert to what it was in 1949. Most crops have until the spring or summer, but the deadline for milk and other dairy products comes at the end of December. Applying the o