TIMELINE: Two years of work on farm bill

(Reuters) - Congress spent more than two years in developing the $289 billion, five-year U.S. farm bill that is promised a presidential veto.

The House and Senate can override a veto if each chamber calls a new vote on the bill and passes it by a two-thirds majority.

Here are milestones in development of the farm bill:

2005

July 7 - in Nashville, Agriculture Department holds first of 52 farm bill forums scheduled around the country to gather grass-roots ideas for the bill.

2006

February 6 - House Agriculture Committee holds, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, first field hearing on farm bill.

June 23 - Senate Agriculture Committee begins regional hearings on farm bill.

2007