In the end most Senators concluded the farm bill did more good than harm. The Senate voted 64-35 to approve it and sent it on to President Bush for his expected signature.

Dec. 20—While Camron Knott grew up with a farm background, he doesn't personally consider himself a farmer. "...We did a couple different things but we always did tobacco," Knott said.

Jimmy Carter, the former president and statesman who died Sunday at 100, was famously proud of being a peanut farmer and is being remembered for working to address food insecurity through modern ...