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Below is the full list of the 73 amendments being considered as part of the upcoming Farm Bill vote:

1.         Akaka amendment #2440 (highly fractionated tribal lands);

2.         Akaka amendment #2396 (tribal relations office);

3.         Baucus amendment #2429 (Livestock);

4.         Bingaman amendment #2364 (multi-state aquifers);

5.         Brown-OH amendment #2445 (rural development);

LEWISVILLE, Ark. – Six inches of rain have made a change in the landscape along the Red River in southwest Arkansas.

“The farmland along the river bottoms, a lot of it looks like lakes,” Joe Vestal, Lafayette County extension staff chair for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, saidWednesday morning. “It’ll take awhile to get it off the fields,” and that’s where the worry lies.

A WHITE HOUSE CONSERVATION CONFERENCE HEARD AGRICULTURE SECRETARY TOM VILSACK ANNOUNCE ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRODUCERS TO ENROLL LAND IN THE CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM, OR C-R-P. THIS INCLUDES ONE MILLION ACRES IN C-R-P INITIATIVES TO PRESERVE GRASSLANDS AND WETLANDS.

Michael Scuse, USDA’s Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services announced the next targeted enrollment for the CRP program starts on Friday, March 2nd and ends on April 6th at your FSA office. “Your FSA office will help you if you are not sure if your land qualifies or how much will qualify. That is what the FSA office is for, just ask.” Scuse added that there is an ongoing program for “highly erodible land” that is on-going.

RURAL TV is covering this year's USDA Ag Outlook Forum, below is a full scedule of RURAL TV's coverage:

Tuesday Feb 28th 7am-9am ET and 2PM-4pm ET: USDA Ag Outlook Forum-A Major address by Ag Sec Vilsack, an economic outlook by USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber and appearances by former Secretary’s of Agriculture.

Wednesday, Feb 29th 7am-9am and 2-4pm ET: USDA Ag Outlook Forum-A Major address by Ag Sec Vilsack, an economic outlook by USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber and appearances by former Secretary’s of Agriculture.

US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks in front of a US Committee Regarding the upcoming farm bill legislation.

Pat Haggerty discusses the 2012 Farm Bill being drafted by legislators across the country. The bill, which expects to see spending cuts, impacts both rural and urban communities across the United States.

OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers are expected to plant 94 million acres of corn this coming crop year, according to USDA's baseline estimates released Monday morning. That's near the low end; some private estimates put corn acreage as high as 96 million acres. USDA also maintained that corn would follow trendline yields and hit 164 bushels per acre in 2012.