BRENT BARNETT
Brownfield Ag Network
U.S. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says farmers and ranchers need a new five-year farm bill in 2025.
“It has failed now to get through Congress the last two times under the Biden administration,” Rollins said Monday. “This is a very, very big priority of mine.”
But she says getting it across the finish line will be a complicated process. “The farm part of the farm bill is only about 15-to-18% and you have to have 60 votes to get it through the Senate. That means that we need, depending on the Republicans, between 10-to-13 Democrat votes. There’s a lot of conversations that have to go on and a lot of negotiations that have already happened.”
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst says the cost for a new farm bill keeps going up as negotiations continue. “Our farm bill had grown in cost from over $800 billion in the last farm bill to $1.5 trillion.”
The current farm bill extension expires in September.
