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Farmers urged to push for farm bill passage

A Farm Bureau leader is optimistic Congress can pass a farm bill this week, but says farmers need to act now.

Jason Mugnaini with Wisconsin Farm Bureau tells Brownfield that without a new farm bill, the permanent law from the 1940’s would return. “It will destroy our supply chain. It will cost consumers billions of dollars at the grocery store. It would be a devastation of our dairy industry in this country, so we have more at stake than really any other state at this moment to really get a farm bill done.”

Mugnaini says things like crop insurance protection and parts of the farmer safety net that were not in last summer’s reconciliation act need to get done. “At Wisconsin Farm Bureau, we’ve been calling on our members to get into those offices and call the legislative offices to say, please support the farm bill.”

Mugnaini says all signs point to a House vote on the farm bill this week.  If passed, the bill would move to the Senate for consideration.