Showing posts with label Payment limitation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Payment limitation. Show all posts
Saturday, November 28, 2020

On Enforcing Payment Limitation

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GAO looked at how FSA is enforcing payment limitation rules.  The summary conclusion seems to be "improving, but with a ways to go...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

FSA Flip-Flops on Actively Engaged?

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 Rural Blog has a post l inking to a Progressive Farmer article on a change in payment limitation regulations published here.  The article ...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Definitions of Farming: US Versus EU

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Defining who is a "farmer" is complicated.  It's been 35 years since our legislation first tried to define "actively enga...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

More on the Disaster Aid Bill and Payment Limitation

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From the text of the bill : "Sec. 103.  (a)   (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a person or legal entity is not eligible to r...
Monday, June 03, 2019

Payment Limitations in the News Again

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Been a busy day so I didn't get a chance to follow up on this piece . What strikes me is the idea that the payments were on a US Treas...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Beneficial Ownership for All, Not Just Farms

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If I correctly understand current payment limitation rules (dubious, at my age it's questionable what I correctly understand) farmers ar...
Monday, December 10, 2018

The Farm Bill and Payment Limitation

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The Post editorial page says that Rep. Conaway got his nieces/nephews provision (see my previous post under this label) included in the farm...
Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Nieces and Nephews in Farming?

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AEI notes the House Ag chair is pushing to allow nieces and nephews to be "persons' for payment limitation purposes: " In t...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Congressional Research Service on Payment Limitation

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A new website has lots of Congressional Research Service reports (which are usually not made public, unless the member of Congress who reque...
Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Defining "Engaged": Farming Versus Selling Guns

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For several days we've known that Obama was going to announce actions on gun regulation which he could take on his authority, without re...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

No End to Payment Limitation Fights

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From Agri-pulse on the omnibus bil l: Cotton growers win relief from payment limit Here are some key provisions for food and agriculture...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Actively Engaged Regulations Finalized--Is the 30-Year Struggle Over?

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FSA published the final rule on "actively engaged" in farming determinations here. "No major changes are being made in resp...
Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Comments on Actively Engaged

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Chris Clayton at DTN has a summary of the comments on the proposed rule for actively engaged determinations. Here's Grassley's state...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Comment on "Actively Engaged"

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The Blog for Rural America criticizes the draft rule on "actively engaged". He may be picking up comments from the Coalition for ...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Illinois on "Actively Engaged" Proposals

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Illinois Ext. has posted an analysis of FSA's proposed rule on "actively engaged" in farming. After summarizing the backgro...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Sen. Charles Schumer and Payment LImitation

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The good senator from New York was precocious, winning election to the State Assembly and then to the US House in his twenties.  He's no...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Rice and "Actively Engaged"--the First Shot Fired

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From the chairman of the House subcommittee on farm programs: Chairman Crawford cited the need for action by the Department to address t...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

After 29 Years, "Actively Engaged" in Farming

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FSA published a proposed rule defining "actively engaged" in farming--from their press release : Under the proposed rule, non-fa...
Monday, March 02, 2015

Actively Engaged

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Another chapter in the saga of "actively engaged"--from Farm Policy's report on the Senate Ag hearings: Sen. Stabenow : “An...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Actively Engaged

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Politico anticipates the proposed rule defining "actively engaged" in farming, as the lead bit in an interview with Secretary Vils...