NCBA's Top Priority is Completed Farm Bill by Year's End

With farm bill conferees named the National Cattlemen's Beef Association continues to make a full farm bill before the year's end their number one priority on the hill.

NCBA's Executive Director of Government Affairs Kristina Butts shares more details.

Butts: "And next week when the Senate is back in session, we expect the full conference to meet and start talking about what their priorities issues are going to be in the conference discussion. So one thing that NCBA has been doing -- even during the government shutdown --and over the last few days as we continued to meet with those that are on the conference committee and talk about our priorities on behalf of NCBA's membership."

Butts says that the NCBA is hopeful that by the end of the year there will be a Farm Bill in place. She continues

Butts: "This process with the farm bill has been a bit of a bumpy one and a little bit of an unexpected one but this is the furtherest we've ever been in farm bill conversations. The one priority issue that NCBA has -- the number one issue -- is to get this farm bill done by the end of the year. So we will continue to work with House and Senate leadership on the committee as well as all the conferees and do all we can do from our cattlemen's perspective to deliver that farm bill by the end of the year."

She says that the NCBA's grassroots efforts have been very effective but she urges cattlemen and women to continue to be engaged in the process until the farm bill is complete.