Indeed, officials talk about reshaping farm policy to focus more on value and efficiency.
Bradley and Gore oppose a longtime tenet of Democratic farm policy: controlling production to balance supply with demand.
Another reason why the status quo on farm policy may prevail: fragmented politics.
But after campaigning in Iowa this year, Bradley is joining Vice President Al Gore in calling for a new national farm policy.
EU's wasteful farm policy and to go on selling off state assets.
Activity on farm policy is buzzing in Washington, as the big 2002 law on American agriculture nears its September expiration and needs renewing.
Instead of Americans enjoying a bounty after the clock runs out, federal farm policy will automatically revert to a farm bill drawn up in 1949.
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And it has plenty of issues with which to occupy itself at present: the Union must fix a new seven-year budget, reform its farm policy, and pave the way for new entrants from the east.
To achieve accord on even a token reduction during its current stint as the Union's president, it needs support from the French on farm-policy reform and some give from the British over their budget rebate, won in the 1980s.
Instead of saving the family farm, the policy is destroying it, encouraging agricultural land consolidation and raising barriers to entry.
He said assembly ministers had put in place a planning policy for wind farm developments in mid Wales while appearing to remain "blissfully unaware" of the physical constraints of building them.
Almost certainly it would have been, in today's terms, a policy aimed at increased farm employment.
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The largest single budget item remains farm subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy.
Three of the Welsh governments Tan 8 areas - the six-year old policy to encourage wind farm developers to bid for planning turbines in seven strategic areas of Wales - are in Powys.
In rural areas, the farm bill will dictate the next five years of federal policy for food growers and producers.
Conservationists have won a High Court battle against a wind farm in a case that could have "turned government policy on its head".
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All four Republicans responding to the Register survey, for example, supported Freedom to Farm and its shift to a more market-oriented agriculture policy.
EU's common agricultural policy was originally devised to secure free trade in farm products within Europe by paying the same guaranteed prices to all, and to use these payments to stabilise farmers' volatile incomes.
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"This is a really important step toward food safety standards that would prevent contamination whether it is produced in a food factory or being produced on a farm, " said Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America.
Louisville is also a throwback to an era before NBA policy changes sanded college basketball down to a five-month farm system.
Hopes for further accommodative monetary policy from the Federal Open Market Committee abated earlier this year after non-farm payrolls grew for three straight months by more than 200, 000 jobs.
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After the American farm bill last year, and the EU's anaemic efforts to reform its common agricultural policy, the Doha round had looked set to fail.
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