Enterprise Crop Ins

Senate moves on Agriculture Spending Bill

On Wednesday, September 7, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its fiscal year (FY) 2012 Agriculture Appropriations bill by voice vote.

The Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee received an overall allocation of $19.78 billion for discretionary spending in FY 2012, translating to a $192 million reduction below the already low FY 2011 levels. The House bill passed earlier this year was based on a much lower, pre-budget deal allocation.

For a comparison of the House and Senate bills, you can download the latest version of our annual appropriations chart.

Raid on Conservation Programs

The Senate bill cuts from the farm bill mandatory conservation programs by 12 percent, over $700 million, on top of the half billion dollar cut contained in the FY 2011 agriculture appropriations bill. This is better than the over $1 billion cut by the House bill, but still a huge cut. Conservation and renewable energy were the only farm bill mandatory programs cut. Commodity, crop insurance, and export subsidies were left unscathed, as was the SNAP or food stamp program.

We have seen this ritual before. Shortchange the allocation to the agricultural spending bill by a huge amount, knowing that though the Committee must increase spending on food safety and feeding programs, it can pay for it by raiding farm bill mandatory conservation money. If this were happening in a budget bill or in the farm bill, all mandatory spending would be on the table for potential cuts and there would be an honest discussion about the relative merits. But in the Appropriations Committee, only conservation is made to take the fall with not even so much as a moment’s consideration of a farm bill-wide review. This is fundamentally wrong and unfair, and the appropriators should quite frankly be ashamed of their actions.

The massive cut to mandatory conservation spending contained in this bill is a testament to how broken Washington is when it comes to budgetary matters. Shortchanging the agriculture appropriations allocation such that the funding of important items like feeding programs and food safety requires raiding farm bill direct spending to make up for shortfalls is the type of gaming and double dealing that gives Congress a bad name. Even worse, though, is the Committee’s inability, once it decides to raid the farm bill, to put everything on the table and engage in a thoughtful and balanced review.

Flakey clean/update/build on one project :: JetBrains Developer ...

We currently have 16 projects with 33 build configurations running on Team City 4.0.2. All projects share the same VCS Root and pretty much share a similar referencing scheme. We have enterprise (global) projects referenced by ..\..\ syntax to the actual library code from project code. We then use check out rules to specify which directories are referenced by the particular build configuration.

All is working well except one build configuration, it is very flakey. It will build fine one day and then the next it doesn't build. We've dug deep into it and it looks like it's sometimes not following all of the checkout rules we specify. Here are our rules:

+:CentRic/Crop Insurance/1.1.0/CropInsurance.DocumentStorage sln2008 output: Done Building Project "D:\ContinuousIntegration\Tools\Agent1\work\dcbdde85f969f1f9\CentRic\Crop Insurance\1.1.0\CropInsurance.DocumentStorage\CropInsurance.DocumentStorage.sln.teamcity.patch.tcprojx" (Build_TeamCity_generated_3ba9c2c349494a0887a58ba85a300256 target(s)) -- FAILED. Build FAILED. "D:\ContinuousIntegration\Tools\Agent1\work\dcbdde85f969f1f9\CentRic\Crop Insurance\1.1.0\CropInsurance.DocumentStorage\CropInsurance.DocumentStorage.sln.teamcity.patch.tcprojx" (Build_TeamCity_generated_3ba9c2c349494a0887a58ba85a300256 target) (1) -> (Build_TeamCity_generated_3ba9c2c349494a0887a58ba85a300256 target) -> ..\..\..\..\Enterprise\BGM Enterprise Library\VS2008\BgmCollaboration.EnterpriseLibrary.WebControls\BgmCollaboration.EnterpriseLibrary.WebControls.vbproj : Solution file warning MSB4122: Scanning project dependencies for project "..\..\..\..\Enterprise\BGM Enterprise Library\VS2008\BgmCollaboration.EnterpriseLibrary.WebControls\BgmCollaboration.EnterpriseLibrary.WebControls.vbproj" failed. The project file "D:\ContinuousIntegration\Tools\Agent1\work\dcbdde85f969f1f9\CentRic\Crop Insurance\1.1.0\CropInsurance.DocumentStorage\..\..\..\.

Enterprise Rails

Enterprise service bus

Physiology of crop production

Enterprise

Enterprise 2.0, new collaborative tools for your organization's toughest challenges