| AFBF President Zippy Duvall commented Thursday on the passage of a stopgap spending bill by both the House of Representatives and Senate, which includes a one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill. Farm Bureau sent a letter to all members of Congress Tuesday urging passage of the continuing resolution that included a one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill. “We are grateful Congress passed a farm bill extension to avoid serious program disruptions and we encourage President Biden to sign it,” Duvall said. “However, we urge both the House and Senate to stay focused on a new, modernized farm bill that recognizes the many changes and challenges of the past five years.” But for now, the funding/farm bill ‘band-aid’ buys time, though American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall stressed at the National Press Club recently, that a modernized farm bill is needed now… |
| Fixed funding has pitted farm against feeding programs like SNAP, with no clarity yet on how that gets resolved, nor where the farm bill will fit into an even more complicated calendar in 2024. But the temporary bill now goes to the president, who’s expected to sign it. |
