AFBF President Zippy Duvall says it’s critical that Congress finishes a farm bill this year.
“There are only a few pieces of legislation that are more significant than the farm bill when it comes to helping our farmers secure our food supply,” Duvall explained in Newsline. “The farm bill is essential to our farmers and ranchers as it ensures funding for risk management tools that are important to them. Farming is a difficult and risky business, and the farm bill helps farmers weather the storms.
Even though Congress passed an extension of the 2018 farm bill, getting a new farm bill done is still a priority of ours. Farmers and ranchers need and deserve a modernized farm bill that reflects changes our industry has gone through in the last five years.”
