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Minnesota Farm Bureau president “all over the board” on lame duck farm bill

The president of Minnesota Farm Bureau isn’t sure what to think of a lame duck farm bill.

“I’ve been all over the board, and you talk to so-called experts and they’re all over the board.”

Dan Glessing, who farms near Waverly in central Minnesota, tells Brownfield Farm Bureau continues to advocate for a farm bill this year.

“Quite honestly when you look at how old this farm bill is, and then obviously we had the extension last year, boy it’s a pre-COVID farm bill. And you think COVID has been a while already, and the farm bill was created before that.”

He says farmers are under intense inflationary pressure.

“And you look at current commodity prices, this farm bill is getting to be obsolete. So another one-year extension in my view is not something that we’re interested in talking about at this point.”

Glessing spoke to Brownfield during the recent Minnesota AgriGrowth Ag and Food Summit in Minneapolis.