Serious conflicts among government farm program and crop-insurance rules, regarding last fall’s seeding of cover crops, could lead to serious concerns regarding qualification for this year’s payments.

The Senate Agriculture Committee has approved a five-year, half-trillion-dollar plan to overhaul the nation’s food and farm policies.

Markup of a new U.S. farm bill that would replace direct cash payments to farmers with crop insurance has been postponed, a Senate committee chairwoman said.

Many no-tillers could be thinking about planting crops, such as corn, early this year because of the unseasonably warm winter.

Corn and soybean farmers are pushing for— and Congress is moving to create— a whole new subsidy that could maintain farm incomes at a nearly four-decade high should prices fall or crops be destroyed by weather.

Three major farm associations on Wednesday weighed in with specific recommendations on how to replace the current system of direct farm payments should Congress move to cut farm subsidies this year.

The National Corn Growers Association unveiled the Agriculture Disaster Assistance Program (ADAP), a commodity title proposal for the 2012 farm bill that will modify and replace the existing Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program and provide a more effective and responsive safety net for growers.

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