REUTERS — More than 300 U.S. farm and commodity groups urged Congress in a letter last week to pass a long-delayed farm spending bill before the end of the year as farmers face a projected decline in income. The farm bill, an omnibus package passed every five years, funds farm commodity and subsidy programs, as […] Read more
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Here comes the 2024 farm bill, there goes any 2024 reforms
The slowest dance on Capitol Hill, the writing of a new farm bill, gained tempo May 1 when both the House and Senate agriculture committees released versions of their bills. The House bill was a broadly worded, five-page “outline,” while the Senate’s was a detailed 94-page report. Noting the differences in both heft and direction, […] Read more
U.S. producers want next farm bill to boost safety net
HOUSTON, Texas — American crop organizations are eagerly awaiting the passage of a new five-year farm bill. The 2018 bill expired in 2023 but wasn’t renewed that year because of gridlock in Washington, D.C. Sara Wyant, editor-in-chief of Agri-Pulse, a publication focused on food and farm policy coverage in the United States, says she has […] Read more
U.S. farm bill efforts this year can expect choppy seas
The pain I felt late Sunday, Jan. 7, was hard to pinpoint until I realized exactly when it struck: just moments after news of a tentative, 2024 budget deal between Senate and House negotiators had been announced. As such, it soon became apparent the pain wasn’t physical; most likely it was emotional. What, though? Anxiety? […] Read more
U.S. farm program funding extended
REUTERS — The stopgap funding bill to keep the U.S. government open, signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on Nov. 16, includes funding through next September for farm programs and food assistance, but only a few months of funds for a key nutrition program for low-income mothers and their young children. The spending bill passed […] Read more
Fate of a new U.S. farm bill caught up in congressional chaos
As difficult as it was for Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives to find an electable leader, that rough start was the easy part. Ahead lies governing, and it promises to be tricky. First up is Congress’s need to act by mid-November to either keep the government open or shut it down. It’s the […] Read more
![As often is the case with House Republicans, however, the new leader’s hardest job won’t be any of [the] tough, all but intractable problems. The harder, more perilous task will be finding a safe path through GOP minefields to get to the other side of the political divide to even negotiate. | File photo](https://static.producer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/25161633/10-Washington-DC-Capitol-bldg-660x420.jpg)
New U.S. farm bill faces a tortuous journey through Congress
Whoever leads the U.S. House of Representatives, the speaker will have less than a month to push through a workable federal budget, compromise with Senate Republicans to craft an Israeli-Ukrainian multibillion-dollar aid package and — at the very least — extend the now-expired 2018 farm bill through the end of the year, if not through […] Read more
Congressional infighting threatens to delay U.S. farm bill
Even before the U.S. Congress returns from its five-week, no-work period to its usual three-day weeks of little work, Republicans in both chambers are already signalling global markets, the White House and congressional colleagues that their return will bring no 2023 farm bill and no 2024 federal budget by the two laws’ drop-dead date of […] Read more
Appeasing hardliners all but promises failure of U.S. farm bill
When the U.S. Congress returns to Capitol Hill after the Fourth of July, members of the Senate and House face two enormous tasks with little time to complete either. On Sept. 30, the 2018 Farm Bill expires and, simultaneously, the federal government needs a new budget in place to open its doors Oct. 1. It […] Read more
U.S. House Republicans propose food stamp changes for Farm Bill
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee on Thursday called for changes to the government’s food assistance program for the poor, in a package of long-awaited proposals for the next U.S. Farm Bill that could complicate its passage through Congress. Among the proposed changes is a plan to raise the age to […] Read more
