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January 4 - Compromises Tempered Key 1985 Decisions

January 11 - Turbulent Tenure: Departure of Block Revives Issue of Farm Policy Control

January 18 - Crop Loan Rates Cut Maximum Amount

January 25 - Tobacco Referendum Bill Cleared

February 1 - Quick Confirmation Expected: Reagan Names Richard Lyng As New Agriculture Secretary

February 8 - Emergency Funding Cleared for Farm Subsidies

February 15 - First Farm Bill Changes Sent to Reagan

February 22 - More Corrections to 1985 Farm Bill

February 22 - Politics Increase Impetus for Farm Credit Aid

March 1 - Correcting Farm Bill 'Mistakes': Angry Urban Members Stall Dairy's Push To Avoid Cuts

March 1 - House Votes Emergency CCC Funds

March 8 - Farm Bill 'Corrections' Cleared by Congress

March 8 - Lyng Wins Senate Approval, 95-2

March 15 - Legislation Still Expected: Bank Regulators Act to Ease Farm Loan Losses

March 15 - Two Bills Still In Dispute: Senate Showdown on CCC Backs Gramm-Rudman Cuts

March 22 - Stripped-Down Agriculture Supplemental Clears

March 29 - Amendment Threats Block Senate Action: Pre-Recess Drive to Approve Farm Bank Aid Measure Fails

March 29 - Commodity Futures Bill Approved

April 5 - Senators Try to Save Cargo Preference

April 12 - Cattlemen Sue to Stop Dairy Herd Slaughter

May 10 - Comfortable Margin on Third Try: House Approves $1.7 Billion Supplemental Spending Bill

May 10 - House Committee OKs Three-Year CFTC Bill

May 10 - Major Provisions of House-Passed Supplemental

May 17 - USDA Official Subpoenaed in Hill Probe

May 24 - Action Postponed: Farm Export Issue Sidetracks Senate Spending Bill Debate

June 14 - Major Provisions of Senate-Passed Supplemental

June 14 - Supplemental Conferees Fail to Reach Pact

June 21 - Veto Possible for Supplemental Spending Bill

June 28 - Supplemental Funding Bill Sent to President

July 5 - Highlights of HR4515 (cleared by Congress June 27) (chart)

July 5 - Summary of FY 1986 Supplemental Appropriations

July 19 - Panel OKs $45.25 Billion for Farm Spending

July 19 - SPECIAL REPORT -- AGRICULTURAL TRADE Farm Bill Fails to Raise Exports: White House, Congress Brace For An Election-Year Reaction

July 19 - SPECIAL REPORT -- AGRICULTURAL TRADE Other Countries Competing: Once a Bright Spot for U.S., Farm Exports Are Declining

July 19 - Three-Year Authorization: House Passes CFTC Measure After Reversing a Key Vote

July 26 - House OK's Agriculture Spending Bill

July 26 - House, Senate Panels Start Implementing Budget

August 2 - Members, Lyng Act on Drought Aid

August 2 - New Administration Announcement: Soviet Grain Deal Might Not Ease Hill Farm-Trade Pressure

August 9 - Game of One-Upmanship: Farm-State Members Scramble To Attack Soviet Wheat Deal

August 9 - House Passes Farm Drought-Aid Bill

August 16 - Wheat Poll Prompts Democratic Call for Legislation

August 23 - CONGRESS AT MIDYEAR: Agriculture

August 23 - Poll Spurs Drive for Federal Farming Controls, Two Sides Continue To Dispute Impact

September 13 - Election-Year Currency: PIK Certificates Prove Popular With Farmers and Lawmakers

September 13 - Many Reagan Cuts Rejected: Panel OKs New Farm Spending of $27 Billion

September 13 - Panel OKs Bill to Tighten Grain Standards

September 20 - New Farm Bills Prepared

September 20 - Reports Predict Heavy Losses: Bills Relaxing Farm Bank Rules Blocked by Debate on Bailout

September 27 - Stage Set for Major Farm Policy Debate in 1987

October 4 - New Farm Credit Bookkeeping Plan Proposed

October 11 - House Acts to Avert Bailout of Farm Banks

October 11 - Sugar Quotas Out, Leverage Deals In: Senate Bows to House Views On Contentious CFTC Issues

October 18 - Commodity Trading Commission Bill Advances

October 18 - Senate Accepts House Farm Payment Ceiling

October 25 - The 99th Congress Legislative Summary: Agriculture

November 1 - CFTC Reauthorization Bill Cleared

November 1 - Fiscal 1987 Appropriations Approved

November 1 - Hill Fervor for Farm Bill Changes Died Slowly

November 1 - Some Programs Knowingly Under-Funded: $45.2 Billion Farm Bill May Fall Short of Costs

November 8 - Senate Agriculture Committee: Panel Returns to Center of Fray

December 20 - Budget Would Cut Target Prices by 10 Percent

December 20 - Special Report: Legislative Outlook AGRICULTURE