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New life in the farm bill
The head lobbyist with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says the election results could motivate Congress to get a farm bill passed in its lame duck session.
Ethan Lane tells Brownfield, “That would be a really good move to clear the decks of some of this stuff going into what we know will be a busy agenda in the 119th Congress.”
He says it’s beyond time to get it finished, “Senator (Amy) Klobuchar has said as much, she doesn’t want to deal with a farm bill in the next congress, GT’s (Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson) ready to go. I think (Speaker of the House) Mike Johnson is open to that idea, so gosh, let’s see if we can take advantage of this and put this issue to bed with a bill that agriculture likes, and focus on other issues next year.”
Lane says there is a strong possibility a new farm bill written under a Republican controlled House and Senate may not get as much support, “The reality is these are some fairly minor adjustments, budgetarily, to how these programs are administered, and what was the worst deal ever a few months ago might now start to look pretty damn reasonable, and I think that might be factoring into the math, I hope it is.”
Congress has around 20 days left to get a farm bill finished before the end of the year.
Farm Bill must always be pushed through to be firmly in place, as the farming industry strengthens the nation no matter what political chaos exist, the economy of the farm benefits that nation period. You cannot have strength as a nation if you do not have the farming sector protected and producing the food for the nation and exporting to countries across the globe. Food supply nourishes a nation of people!!