Getting the farm bill passed before a new Congress takes its place in January is a top priority in farm country. Cattle and dairy groups are pretty confident that will happen in the lame duck session following the mid-term election, but pork producers aren’t as certain.
Weighing in favor of a farm bill yet this year is that Collin Peterson, D-Minn., the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, will be the chairman of the committee when the House flips to a Democratic majority.
He wants to get a farm bill done and doesn’t want to rewrite it when he becomes chairman, Colin Woodall, senior vice president of government affairs for National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, said in the latest Beltway Beef podcast.
