Ag Committee Member: Farm bill delay hurts farmers when they need support most

A member of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee says Congress must focus its attention on a new five-year farm bill. Illinois Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski tells Brownfield, “We still have 39 different orphan programs that, because we haven’t gotten to a farm bill, are now going unfunded.”  She says, “We need to get to a full […]

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