
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 11, 1990                   TAG: 9006110085
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

CONSERVATION, PRICES REMAIN FARM-BILL ISSUES

Members of the House Agriculture Committee plan to finish their work on the 1990 farm bill this week, while their counterparts in the Senate engage in open warfare over commodity prices.

The last big issue in the House committee is the conservation section of the bill, which Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, said would be completed Tuesday.

That's the day the Senate committee is to go public with its arguments over price supports, something the members have avoided in all their other work on the bill that sets agriculture policy for the next five years.

Most problems with other sections have been resolved in closed meetings between the Democratic and Republican staffs.

Democrats on the Senate committee have proposed increasing price supports 1 percent in 1991 and allowing increases in the four subsequent years based on inflation rates.

Republicans have backed the Bush administration's position that price supports should be frozen at 1990 levels.

by CNB