Ag producers and their advocates can expect a hard slog in the coming months as Congress tackles the new Farm Bill, which funds the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns told members of the Colorado Livestock Association this week that with a new, extremely conservative Speaker of the House, Republicans there are going to try to trim the nearly $1.5 trillion Farm Bill, and they’re going to take aim especially at the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a.k.a. SNAP. He pointed out that those numbers are not annual numbers, but rather are projections over the next […]
Ag producers and their advocates can expect a hard slog in the coming months as Congress tackles the new Farm Bill, which funds the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns told members of the Colorado Livestock Association this week that with a new, extremely conservative Speaker of the House, Republicans […]
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