Obama: Farm Bill under a new administration

New US President Barack Obama has moved into the White House. How will his administration manage the US agricultural system? Industry experts and politicians share their opinion. By Nicholas Zeman, USA President George W. Bush initially vetoed the 2008 US Farm Bill, and Washington insiders say he was hostile to it at every turn. “It was a highly ideological and rigid approach to negotiating with Congress,” says Earl Pomeroy (Democrats), who is in the House of Representatives on beha