Senate counter offer

Sen. Harkin leads off today's farm bill conference with a counter offer to the House; $10 billion package he said is basically agreed to (if offsets can be found) and $2.4 billion additional in another package.

House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson said there is significant progress (what the White House is looking for) but finding the offsets is still a problem.

Still some distance to go on a final deal....but enough for another week of deal making?