payments to producers

"We always know there is a threat to lower levels of payments to producers from some in the Congress," he said.

Separating traditional market planning expenditure from direct payments to producers, which have increased significantly, would, in particular, be very useful.

On the specific issue of maintaining the payments to producers, we cannot accept a move towards a flat rate payment per hectare regime.

Nevertheless, I can accept Amendments Nos 71 and 72, which allow the Member States a transitional period for the transition to direct premium payments to producers.

The CSPC also received portions of funds needed to assure payments to producers from Cotontchad as well as from the central government.

We consider excessive the Commission's proposal to cut payments to producers in many sectors - particularly the rice, nuts and durum wheat sectors - and animal husbandry.

Earlier, USDA made deficiency payments to producers of wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice to make up the differences between target prices and seesawing market prices.

For the first time in recent years, payments to producers showed no increase, at 20.2p/litre, although Mr Howie pointed out it was the best figure among the five UK boards.

And huge payments to producers and actors to maintain hit shows like "ER," "Friends" and "Frasier" have led networks to turn increasingly to production companies aligned with them.

Read more The Advanced Biofuel Payment Program provides payments to producers to support and expand production of advanced biofuels refined from sources other than corn kernel starch.

The latter estimates comprise explicit subsidies, and certain direct payments to producers in the private or public sectors (including compensation for operating losses for public undertakings) that are treated as subsidies.

Thirdly, I do not support an increase of additional payments to producers or any increase of temporary restructuring aid; nor do I support an increase in additional payments to suppliers.

Also weighing on grain futures, Mr. Feltes said, was a report that the Office of Management and Budget would not oppose the continued use of generic certificates in making subsidy payments to producers.

He wants to eliminate Federal subsidies to honey producers and to limit Federal payments to producers of wool and mohair (a program adopted in 1954 to insure a "strategic reserve" of wool in time of war).

Dan Glickman, a former Kansas Congressman who is now Secretary of Agriculture, warned last week in Washington: "Providing yearly payments to producers, regardless of how much they are receiving from the marketplace, is not reform, it's a windfall."

Direct Government payments to producers of major crops like grains and cotton, which often account for most of a farm's profits, are expected to drop about 8 percent, says Gregory Gajewski, economics editor of the Agriculture Department's magazine, Agricultural Outlook.