date:Jun 02, 2012
arm bill sometime next week. EWG staffers wouldn't say which senators are likely to introduce amendments to limit crop insurance, but they expect amendments to be offered that would reduce subsidies to the largest farms and that would require farmers to meet conservation standards in order to be eligible for crop insurance.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee who has long championed having strict limits on payments from other farm programs said Thursday t