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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, March 31, 2025
The House and Senate are racing to reach deals on their respective budget resolutions, with markups scheduled on both sides this week. However, House leadership remains reluctant to accept the Senate’s proposal, even as it struggles to settle internal differences in the party.
The top Republican on the Senate Ag Committee, John Boozman of Arkansas, insisted at the summit that he’s still focused on getting a farm bill passed this year.
With farmers continuing to struggle across the country to find workers, 30 House members from across the political spectrum are appealing to leaders of the House Agriculture Committee today to ensure the next farm bill includes new funding for research and development into mechanizing and automating the production of specialty crops.
The House debates a bill this week that’s intended to get kids drinking whole milk at school, while GOP congressional leaders continue trying to find a deal that could tie border security measures to funding for Ukraine and Israel.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, a member of the House Ag Committee and chairman of the Republican Main Street Caucus, told reporters Wednesday he doesn't believe members of the right-wing Freedom Caucus are "interested in delaying" this year's farm bill.
Kevin McCarthy learned a lesson from his four-day struggle to win the speakership that could have implications for the farm bill and other measures: Get the party hard-liners on board with legislation before taking it to the floor
For the second time in five years, House Republicans failed to pass a farm bill, this time because of conservative demands for action on immigration and fierce Democratic opposition to the legislation's food stamp reforms.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2017 - It doesn’t seem that journalists like me have had much time to “recover” from the “ups and downs” of what finally became the 2014 farm bill.
