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Farm Bill needs more money, not less
The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee says Farm Bill funding discussions should center on spending more, not less.
Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson tells Brownfield he’s advocating for a heftier baseline because of the many financial challenges farmers are facing.
“We saved over $100 billion dollars from what the baseline was in the last Farm Bill (and) contributed $100 billion to the deficit. So, a few hundred million dollars should help us fix some of the problems we have.”
A group of 500 organizations concerned about Congress allocating fewer dollars into the next Farm Bill wrote a letter to lawmakers this week requesting that no funding cuts occur.
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