1.   The real beneficiaries of EC farm policies are pesticide and fertiliser producers and companies that dispose of EC surpluses, the report claimed.

2.   Under the new-look European farm policy agreed last year farmers are much better off than they thought they would be.

3.   And he still sounds reverent when he describes his father discussing farm policy with President Kennedy, or Senator Humphrey filling up a room with charisma.

4.   And they blame U.S. and European farm trade policies for dragging down prices around the world.

5.   Another contentious issue that has cut across party lines is how large a role conservation should play in farm policy.

6.   As the largest agriculture company in the U.S., national farm policy can have tremendous impact on the company.

7.   At least five members of Congress who sit on the agriculture committees that are writing the new farm policy receive thousands of dollars in farm subsidies each year.

8.   A commission would decide the course of farm policy after that.

9.   A more ambitious change in federal farm policy would probably not pass this year, he conceded.

10.   A delay could irritate farmers and bankers, who are anxious to know government farm policy with spring planting already underway in some southern states.