Farm Bill Not Going Away

Farm Bill Not Going Away

Bob Larson
Bob Larson
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson. Farm bill challenges will not go away in 2025 if Congress has to punt again on the top farming legislation.

That, from the American Farm Bureau’s Director of Government Affairs Joe Gilson who sees the legislative landscape for a farm bill next year …

GILSON … “The next Congress is going to be a lot of challenges, from the debt ceiling to the expiration of various different tax issues.”

…and what the budget will look like for a new farm bill.

As for the political landscape …

GILSON … “You need 60-votes in the Senate. And I don’t think anything that I’ve been looking at, into the election, gives anybody sixty votes in the Senate. So, we’re going to have to have a bipartisan agreement at some point.”

Better now, than continuing the uncertainty with another one-year extension of an outdated farm bill and losing time seating new lawmakers who may have no farm bill experience.

Gilson says farmers’ livelihoods are on the line …

GILSON … “We want to be able to have them farm next year, and they’re starting to make financial decisions alongside their lenders. And that uncertainty that is created is definitely…we have a lot of question marks from farmers saying, ‘what is Congress doing, what is Farm Bureau doing to provide that robust farm safety net?’”

Questions that might not finally be answered until well into the new year.

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