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Farm economy and budget pressure in new farm bill
The National Corn Growers Association says the 2018 farm bill needs to address the fact that production expenses are not declining at the same rate as farm revenues.
Sam Willett tells Brownfield Congress also needs to deal with budget deficits, infrastructure improvements and tax reform which could lead to more farm bill cuts. “We have to be mindful of the fact that there’s going to be a lot of budget pressure again to try to cut funding for the farm bill and I think we need to push back against that.”
He says there’s less than a month before the first farm bill hearing, but he doesn’t expect to see the same amount of listening sessions there were when drafting the 2014 farm bill.
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