{"id":3619,"date":"2023-06-20T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2023-06-20T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T14:27:53","slug":"farm-bill-negotiations-ramping-up-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/farm-bill-negotiations-ramping-up-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Bill negotiations ramping up in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kellan Heavican<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brownfield Ag News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As 2023 Farm Bill negotiations continue to ramp up, some Congressional lawmakers say the legislation faces an uphill battle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThings are moving slower than, I think, what all of us had planned at the beginning of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer, a Republican on the Senate Ag Committee, tells Brownfield the budget is a concern and if there\u2019s an increase in reference prices, then there will need to be cuts.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cYou can\u2019t expect to increase payments for nutrition programs or increase the number of people on nutrition programs and not make increases for ag producers in those farm programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nebraska\u2019s Congressional delegation met with state commodity groups and other stakeholders Monday for several farm bill listening sessions. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congressmen Don Bacon, a member of the House Ag Committee, says lawmakers likely removed the biggest hurdle by agreeing on work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program&nbsp;when the debt ceiling was increased.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cThat was going to be the biggest point of contention, and I think it\u2019s already off the table. They already debated it for two months and they came up with a handshake deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Pete Ricketts says he\u2019s prioritizing keeping chocolate milk in schools after USDA proposed a ban on the product&nbsp;due to concerns about childhood obesity.&nbsp;\u201cSometimes these (young people) that\u2019s the only solid meal that they\u2019re getting all day. &nbsp;We want them to have a healthy meal that involves dairy that\u2019s a part of having strong bones.&nbsp; This is a huge mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congressman Adrian Smith says the farm bill needs to include programs and funding that help increase productivity for producers. &nbsp;\u201cWe want the agility for producers to be able to innovate for the future, hopefully smooth things out economically for themselves and to also constantly be thinking about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congressman Mike Flood says he\u2019s working to secure funding to add more researchers to a USDA precision ag research facility&nbsp;at the University of Nebraska\u2019s Innovation Campus. &nbsp;\u201cTo find ways to grow corn with less water, apply the right amount of nitrogen, do what we can every step of the way to protect the environment and make sure our farmers and ranchers are profitable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the delegation were mixed on if the Farm Bill would be extended after the September 30<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;deadline. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kellan Heavican Brownfield Ag News As 2023 Farm Bill negotiations continue to ramp up, some Congressional lawmakers say<\/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-3619","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\/3619","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=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/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=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}