http://future.aae.wisc.edu/blog/articles/2008/04/11/us-house-lawmakers-offer-new-farm-bill-plan-at-conference-mtg en-us 40 Updates and information about the the trends in Dairy Markets <p>Agriculture leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives <a href="http://future.aae.wisc.edu/collection/news_items/house_version.pdf"> unveiled a new farm bill proposal</a> during a meeting Thursday with their Senate counterparts on a conference committee tasked with forming unified legislation over the next several days.</p> <p>House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., told reporters that he expects Senate conferees to take the next few days to scrutinize the proposal and perhaps make a counter proposal as early as Monday.</p> <p>The new House plan would go $5.5 billion over the farm bill budget, a sharp drop from the $10-billion-over figure that senators have been planning, but Peterson said he did not want to include a controversial $4 billion farm disaster program.</p> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:28:00 -0500 urn:uuid:13c6c41a-8628-4f9a-9b7f-b53018a4f6a5 Brian Gould http://future.aae.wisc.edu/blog/articles/2008/04/11/us-house-lawmakers-offer-new-farm-bill-plan-at-conference-mtg News