Reviewing CRP & Home Sales Up
Reviewing CRP & Home Sales Up plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
A House Agriculture Subcommittee will hold a hearing today to review the Agriculture Department’s administration of Conservation Reserve Program contracts. According to Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson - an audit of selected USDA field offices to check compliance with CRP rules and regulations revealed a number of issues.
PETERSON: There’s a lot of missing information and a lot of enforcement of the current law that has not been happening in conservation. Half the files don’t have the AGI information in them.
Existing home sales are on the rise across the nation, and the increase we're seeing locally outpaces the national rate. Nationally, sales of existing homes increased 5.1 percent from January to February.
Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.
A while back I wrote some comments on Al Gore that were completely tongue in cheek. Now I am going to make a comment on Al Gore that you can take seriously. Mr. Gore, perhaps for the first time, has actually offered up support for farmers and ranchers to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he listed solutions for global warming which included, “The addition of sinks from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting. Farmers and ranchers in the
Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.