According to the listserv below Iowa will get this
much farm conservation funding from the following
bills:

                           Iowa         Total U.S.

Combest(House Bill)     $1,300,910,000 $3,489,879,000
Harkin Bill             $1,498,260,000 $4,420,495,000
Cochran-Roberts Bill    $1,377,145,000 $3,808,529,000

 I don't believe this includes the Conservation
Security act.

Charlie winterwood
--- Jane Clark <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Here are a couple of interesting notes from another
> listserve.
> Jane Clark
>
> RESOURCES
> * The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has posted
> the first ever publicly
> available, searchable Internet database of
> government farm subsidy payment
> records at:  http://www.ewg.org
>
>
> WATCH DOG: FARM BUREAU ATTACKS FACTORY FARM LAW
>
> The Farm Bureau has initiated a trial in U.S.
> District Court to overturn
> a 1998 state constitutional amendment designed to
> keep large out-of-state
> companies from farming or owning farmland in South
> Dakota. During the
> trial last week, a witness for the Farm Bureau
> testified that the amendment
> will turn the state into an agricultural backwater.
> "My conclusion is that
> South Dakota appears to be losing competitive
> advantage in livestock
> production," said Ohio State University economist
> Luther Tweetan. Lawyers
> defending the amendment said corporate factory farms
> can hurt family farms
> and rural towns and threaten the environment. The
> amendment came about after
> two years of wrangling in the state Legislature
> about how to provide
> adequate
> environmental safeguards for large-scale hog farms
> or other animal-feeding
> operations. Although hogs are not mentioned in the
> amendment, one issue in
> the debate over the amendment was whether large,
> out-of-state companies such
> as Murphy Family Farms of North Carolina should be
> allowed to own hogs in
> South Dakota and contract with South Dakota farmers
> to raise them. The trial
> is expected to end soon and U.S. District Judge
> Charles Kornmann will decide
> whether the amendment approved by 59% of South
> Dakotans is indeed
> constitutional.
>
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