{"id":18254,"date":"2024-08-08T05:08:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T09:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=18254"},"modified":"2024-08-08T05:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T09:08:30","slug":"put-more-farm-back-in-the-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/put-more-farm-back-in-the-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Put more farm back in the farm bill&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ERIN ANDERSON<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brownfield Ag Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A member of the U.S.&nbsp;Senate Ag Committee says there is a slim possibility of getting a bill passed before the end of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R, Indiana)&nbsp;tells Brownfield a lack of ag in the proposed farm bill is to blame for the hold up in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose of us that know agriculture are somehow having trouble getting anything out of that 85%,\u201d he says. \u201cMany of us don\u2019t want to borrow and spend more. It\u2019s already a huge bill and that\u2019s kind of where we\u2019re at loggerheads.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the USDA\u2019s Economic Research Service just over 75% of the 2018 Farm Bill goes to nutrition programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Braun says this is the first proposed&nbsp;farm bill that surpassed&nbsp;the trillion dollar&nbsp;mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s roughly around 1.2 trillion and I think the last one was about 800 billion,\u201d he says. \u201cThat is a big jump, but then again most of it\u2019s going into nutrition and sadly we\u2019re borrowing every penny of that increase, which I that\u2019s not a good long term business plan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERIN ANDERSON Brownfield Ag Network A member of the U.S.&nbsp;Senate Ag Committee says there is a slim possibility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-18254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ag","tag-ag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-Ag-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}