Mr. Conrad and Mr. Pomeroy held posts on the Senate and House Agriculture Committees, giving them a big role in drafting farm bills, as well as on the tax-writing panels — Mr. Conrad on Senate Finance and Mr. Pomeroy on House Ways and Means.
The one that is being played out here beside grain silos, at prayer breakfasts and on Indian reservations often revolves around water projects and federal grants and which candidate did more for South Dakota in drafting farm legislation.
At one time many different types of mules were recognized, such as draft mules, farm mules, sugar mules, cotton mules, and mining mules, in declining order of size.
The horses have been used throughout history as war horses, both as cavalry mounts and to draw artillery, and are used today mainly for heavy draft and farm work, meat production and competitive driving events.
But Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the senior Democrat and Republican on the Agriculture Committee, respectively, are drafting a farm policy intended to place greater emphasis on conservation and be more generous to smaller farmers.
The scouting director, Bill Schmidt, plucked the right amateurs in the draft, and the farm director, Bill Geivett, overhauled the system for improving them up the ladder.
Others, such as Thailand and Argentina, want far fewer.In all, the latest draft agreement on farm trade has around 700 pairs of square brackets on language where there is still disagreement.
The Wilpons -- Fred, the owner, and his son Jeff, the team's chief operating officer -- have maintained that they have not set any deadlines and that the team's record, the organization's success in tomorrow's amateur draft and the farm system would all be weighed in evaluating Phillips.
But its draft of the Farm Bill, which sets food and agricultural policy and funding, is less generous: The $348 million of research appropriated over 5 years by the 2008 Farm Bill would be cut to $200 million in the new legislation.
To take one of the less testing examples, the non-farm draft has a formula for reductions in maximum (or "bound", in the jargon) tariffs on non-farm goods.
