{"id":17899,"date":"2024-07-24T05:32:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=17899"},"modified":"2024-07-24T05:33:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:33:00","slug":"congress-in-observation-not-action-mode-on-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/congress-in-observation-not-action-mode-on-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress in observation, not action mode on Farm Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CARAH HART<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brownfield Ag News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives says recent changes in the upcoming presidential election and other politics have Congress in observation mode instead of completing a new farm bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026It is crazy. I\u2019ve been at this a very long time and have never witnessed anything that even comes close to this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chuck Conner tells Brownfield House lawmakers seem to want a new farm bill, but there are holdups in the Senate. And at the end of next week, Conner says lawmakers are on recess through August and they will prioritize appropriations work when they return in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith each passing day, it becomes less and less likely we\u2019ll see those people come together to work on this bill and get it done this year. We are running out of time, we really are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting together a farm bill isn\u2019t easy, but Conner says by historical standards, the differences aren\u2019t that great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis should have been a farm bill that was relatively easy to wrap up and get done and it just hasn\u2019t turned out that way, because we\u2019ve just had so many political considerations thrown into the mix. So many red lines of \u201cyou can\u2019t cross this\u201d or \u201cyou can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says holdup in the Senate are the commodities and nutrition titles and there won\u2019t likely be a perfect compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Senate needs to take up a bill and just start the debate and see where it leads at this point instead of sitting on their hands waiting for the elusive compromise that may or may not exist anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Senate Ag Committee hasn\u2019t scheduled a markup for the new farm bill and the U.S. House Ag Committee passed a bill out of committee at the end of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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