The making of the 1996 Farm Act

Five early developments: April 1994 to April 1995

Getting serious about commodity legislation, May-August 1995

Searching for consensus in the Senate

The administration's restrained entry

The state of play as Congress recessed in August 1995

Counting votes in the fall of 1995

A wait and see season

Farm bill preliminaries nonetheless

Negotiations in the Senate

House approval of freedom to farm

At last, a farm commodity act

A future for farm commodity legislation

A primer on U.S. agricultural policy before 1996.