Farm Bill

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In a period when inflation has raised the cost of everything from fertilizers to shipping, groups representing agricultural producers and processors are calling for increased funding for two proven and longstanding export programs.

Republicans and Democrats are beginning to chart the path of how they want to address food assistance work requirements in the 2023 farm bill discussion at the same time requirements return to pre-pandemic standards in May with the end of the public health emergency.

Congress is under pressure to finally put a significant amount of farm bill funding toward reversing a decades-long decline in public research funding that has seen facilities decay even as universities and companies struggle to find new scientists.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow has a warning for House Republicans who are looking to slash spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Soybean and wheat growers are taking the lead in pushing for lawmakers to increase farm program reference prices in the next farm bill, even as lawmakers wrestle with how to come up with the extra money that would be required.

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture says it wants to see a strong commodity title in the farm bill but is focusing its efforts on ag research, cybersecurity and trade.

Hundreds of interest groups, trade associations, environmentalists and even a few farmers are submitting their ideas for a new farm bill to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. Not to be outdone, representatives of key California departments recently submitted their own 2023 farm bill recommendations in a letter to chairpersons and ranking members.

The Congressional Budget Office plans to issue new estimates of farm bill spending before lawmakers move a new bill later this year, according to a Senate source.