Of interest to agriculture, offsets for the cost of providing conservation assistance to private farm and ranch lands are included in the budget package.The House of Representatives is recessing today for the rest of 2013, so it passed a great deal of legislation yesterday that included a budget plan and a farm bill extension. The Senate is expected to ignore the farm bill extension, based largely on the administration's position of not planning to implement permanent law. It is likely to take up the budget next week with a much closer vote than the House.The budget package included a continuing resolution with the addition of the new provisions. It was a bipartisan vote, quite different from past efforts of the Republican leadership to try...

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