On May 8, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns took the Bush administration’s first formal step toward the 2007 farm bill.
The small move arrived in the form of a lengthy white paper titled Risk Management. It is the first of several “2007 farm bill theme papers,” the secretary will release in the run-up to the legislative debate.
The foundation-laying papers, explained Johanns, are “not to suggest policy but to inform and educate the public
