Legislative Action News Archives April 2011 – November 2011
- Super Committee Fails – What’s Next?
- Common Acreage Report Dates for Crop Insurance & Farm Programs
- ASFMRA-AI Call for Transperancy on Home Buyers’ Forms
- New Online Tool Released to Analyze Farm Bill Options
- Is Volume Suddenly a Problem?
- Food Labels
- Farm Bill & Select Committee Update
- American Farm Bureau Federation Opposes Shallow Loss Programs
- Bankers Send Farm Bill Letter
- ASFMRA-AI Encourage LIfe Companies to Utilize Appraisers Over CRE Indexes for Reserve Calculations
- Supreme Court Denies California Farmers as Delta Smelt Swim On
- Congress Gets California Farm Bill Proposals
- South Dakota Interim Committee Calls for Faster Increases in Taxable Value of Farmland
- New Findings about Ethanol’s Coproducts
- LandOwner Survey: Slight Cooling in Bullishness
- Deficit Reduction Plan for Agriculture
- Congressman Neugebauer Introduces a Crop Insurance Bill
- House Agriculture Committee Considers Revisions of Dodd-Frank Rules
- Child Labor Proposal Raises Concern
- Sources: AppraiserLoft Out of Business
- Rapid Fire Sessions at Annual Meeting – Wednesday, October 26, 2011
- Senators Brown & Thune Introduce Farm Bill Proposal
- American Farm Bureau Federation Farm Bill Passes
- ASFMRA Responds to Department of Energy RFI on Asset Ratings
- FHFA: Freddie, Fannie Missed Opportunities on Mortgage Reviews
- EPA Orders $60 Million Clean-up of Toxic Groundwater in California
- Is the Commodity Bull Market Over?
- DOL to Withdraw & Repropose Fiduciary Definition Under ERISA
- Successful 2011 Leadership Institute
- Proposed Amendments to the Bylaws & Procedures Manual to be Voted on the by the ASFMRA Board of Directors
- Senate Appropriations Committee Passes Agricultural Spending Bill
- President Obama Releases Budget Proposal – Cuts Agriculture
- Dodd-Frank Regulation Rules Move Forward
- No Progress Apparent on Finding Dairy Policy Consensus
- ASFMRA, AI Team Up on FHA Appraisals & REO Disposition
- Iowa Cropland Posts a Staggering 33% Annual Increase
- GM Rice Settlement Nears Oct. 10 Sign-up Deadline
- COBANK-US AGBANK Merger Approved by Stockholders
- Corn Growers Outline Farm Bill Priorities
- AMC Oversight Bill Signed into Law in Illinois
- National Cotton Council Statement
- Senate Agriculture Committee Field Hearing in Kansas
- Estate Taxes
- FBI: Mortgage Fraud by Organized Crime Remains Prevalent
- 14% Surge Seen in Illinois Land Values First Half 2011
- DOT Announces No Intention of Regulating Farmers
- Budget Deal
- Don’t Miss Out on Leadership Institute – Registration Deadline Extended
- Kirk Weih, AFM on Agri-Pulse Open Mic
- USDA Value of Farm Real Estate Increases 7%
- USDA Boosts Funding of Direct Farm Loans by $100 Million
- In Memory – David E. Peterson, Jr.
- Budget Deal
- Another Chance to Comment on FSA/RMA Reporting
- Don’t Miss Out on Leadership Institute – Registration Deadline August 6
- President Establishes Rural Council
- OCC, OTS Merge Under Dodd-Frank Act
- House Bill Focuses on Cause of Bank Failures
- Lucas Sets Stage for Confrontation with CFTC Chairman
- Please Comment on GPS Availability
- Conservation Group Wants to Tie Conservation to Crop Insurance
- Senate Field Hearing in Kansas
- FDIC Sues Former IndyMac Bank CEO to Recover $600 Million
- Ethanol & Crop Subsidies on Chopping Block
- Rabobank: Farmland Not a Bubble, But ‘Modest’ Decline Likely
- GPS Coalition Responds to LightSquared Solution
- House Agriculture Crop Insurance Hearing
- USDA Will Pay LandOwners for Public Access to Property
- US Lawmakers Back Covered Bonds
- Senate Votes to End Ethanol Subsidies
- House Agriculture Appropriations Action
- CRP Sign-ups Finalized
- FDIC Suit Against Appraisals Could Help MBS Investors
- Latest Edition of Kiplinger Agriculture Letter
- GPS Interference Concerns
- IRS Finalizes Appraiser Debarment Process
- Budget Talks
- House Ag Appropriations Action
- NV Makes Changes to Eminent Domain Appraisal Law
- TX Gov Signs Mandatory Licensing Legislation
- Latest Edition of Kiplinger Agriculture Letter
- Seventy-two Agribusiness Organizations Urge CRP Flexibility
- House Sets Spending Levels for FY 2012 Appropriations
- Senator Stabenow Positive on Crop Insurance
- RMA Issues Guidance on Levee Break
- IRS Releases Timber Valuation Audit Guide
- MD Governor Signs AMC Registration & Commission
- FANNIE MAE Posts Tuturial on Uniform Appraisal Dataset
- Regulatory Review – USDA Seeks Input on Acreage Reports
- Congress Set to Return – Focus on Debt Ceiling and Budget
- Halfway Point Reached in Enactment of State AMC Laws
- Argentina Will Limit Farm Land Holdings & Purchases by Foreigners
- Appraisal Organizations Send Letter to State AGs, Consumer Bureau Offering Assitance
- Senate Panel Report on WaMu Failure Highlights Appraisal Role
- Appraisers Unhappy Over Loopholes in “Customary & Reasonable Fees”
- FY 2011 Budget Deal Impacts to Agriculture
- House Passes Republican Fiscal Year 2012 Budget
- 1099 Reporting Requirement Repealed
- NE, KY, SD and MS Latest States to Enact AMC Laws
- GPS Signals are Potentially Threatened by FCC Waiver
- Government Shutdown Looms
- Senate to Start Farm Bill Hearings
- CMBS Heats Up in Capital Markets
- Bill to Legislate Appraisal Process is Withdrawn in Maryland; Still Pending in Nevada
- Utah Legislation Makes Important Changes to State’s AMC Law
- Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Accelerate Farm Equipment Depreciation
- FDIC Rolls Out Risk Retention Proposal That Excludes Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
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