ARCHIVED  March 1, 1996

Farmers await final version of revolutionary Farm Bill

House and Senate members in Washington, D.C., may be taking their time producing a new farm bill, but Mother Nature doesn’t play politics.
So countless farmers in Northern Colorado and elsewhere are nearing — or already have entered — their spring planting season without knowing what will happen with crop subsidies, land conservation and wetlands programs, and other farm-related assistance programs.
Farm bills — actually, amendments to the 1949 Agriculture Adjustment Act — are revived about every five years. The latest promises to offer the most sweeping changes since the Act’s inception. The Senate passed its version of the Farm…

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Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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