{"id":24977,"date":"2025-04-02T09:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=24977"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:07:51","slug":"ag-secretary-calls-for-passage-of-new-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/ag-secretary-calls-for-passage-of-new-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag secretary calls for passage of new farm bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BRENT BARNETT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brownfield Ag Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says farmers and ranchers need a new five-year farm bill in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt has failed now to get through Congress the last two times under the Biden administration,\u201d Rollins said Monday. \u201cThis is a very, very big priority of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she says getting it across the finish line will be a complicated process. \u201cThe 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\u2019s a lot of conversations that have to go on and a lot of negotiations that have already happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Senator Joni Ernst says the cost for a new farm bill keeps going up as negotiations continue. \u201cOur farm bill had grown in cost from over $800 billion in the last farm bill to $1.5 trillion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current farm bill extension expires in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRENT BARNETT Brownfield Ag Network U.S. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says farmers and ranchers need a new five-year<\/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-24977","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\/24977","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=24977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24978,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24977\/revisions\/24978"}],"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=24977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}